lung-power

A form of lung power — The ability to breathe, especially to exhale, and therefore to speak, sing, blow, and so on, either loudly or at length.

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Meanings

nounlung-power (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of lung power.

    With dogged determination, sucking air through a contraption like a restricted drinking-straw, he built up his lung-power — a few seconds, then minutes, now he can go hours without the ventilator.

    1997 March 16, Barry Wigmore, “I Work or I Die”, in Sunday Mirror, page 20
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APA

lung-power. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lung-power

MLA

“lung-power.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lung-power. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lung-power,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lung-power.

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