deep-breathing

A form of deep breathing — A form of breathing where the expansion of the lungs results from using the diaphragm rather than using the muscles of the upper chest.

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Meanings

noundeep-breathing (usually uncountable, plural deep-breathings)

plural deep-breathings

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of deep breathing.
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    I garaged the car and went to Aunt Dahlia's sanctum to ascertain whether she had cooled off at all since I had left her, for I was still anxious about that blood pressure of hers. One doesn't want aunts going up in a sheet of flame all over the place. She wasn't there, having, I learned later, withdrawn to her room to bathe her temples with eau de Cologne and do Yogi deep-breathing, [...]

    1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
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