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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hyperventilate .
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Examples
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I know the first time he did it, he kind of hyperventilated a little.
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Subjects hyperventilated, in the hour before the attack and during control periods, resulting in consistently elevated carbon-dioxide levels.
Seeing Signs of a Panic Attack Before One Happens Ann Lukits 2011
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"The Juddernaut is the future," hyperventilated the Daily Mail, "and that future is now."
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In a recent study on panic attacks, research subjects who hyperventilated in the hour before an attack and during control periods had consistently lower-than-normal carbon-dioxide levels.
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"After I hyperventilated," said Charlene Mae Kuupuaala Thompson, "we told our kids, and we had our own little luau at home."
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Then he nearly hyperventilated talking about defense, the side of the ball that has been a relative afterthought for the head coach in Seattle for the last quarter century.
Seahawks' Mora: 'We've got to take back the dang NFC West' 2009
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Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, dismissed the initiative as "lipstick on the pig," and Representative Pete Stark D-California hyperventilated that the new proposal "ends Medicare as we know it, plain and simple."
Menachem Rosensaft: Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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I hyperventilated & then burst into tears at the launch we went to.
Nebula Weekend, day 1 maryrobinette 2010
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Our ability to grapple with the challenges these present is not enhanced by factually inaccurate and hyperventilated appeals from those who should know better.
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In any of the places where men discuss truly monstrous and dangerous plans, in Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Tehran, watching this hyperventilated criticism of Israel for a shoot-out on a boat must strike them as laughable.
Beating Up on Israel 2010
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