Usually means: Sudden feeling of breathlessness, suffocation.
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  1. empasm: Wordnik
  2. empasm: Wiktionary
  3. Empasm, empasm: Dictionary.com
  4. Empasm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. empasm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Empasm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. empasm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. empasm: FreeDictionary.org
  9. empasm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. Empasm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Empasm: World Wide Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (empasm)

▸ noun:  (obsolete, medicine) A perfumed powder to be sprinkled on the body to mask the odor of sweat.

Similar:
empasma, odor, odorate, empyreuma, pomade, pomatum, balm, odorament, epitheme, vaporarium, more...

Opposite:
dysosmia, anosmia, hyposmia, olfactory fatigue

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idiom, euphemism, jargon, slang, vernacular, more...

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Similar:
empasma, odor, odorate, empyreuma, pomade, pomatum, balm, odorament, epitheme, vaporarium, more...

Opposite:
dysosmia, anosmia, hyposmia, olfactory fatigue

Types:
idiom, euphemism, jargon, slang, vernacular, more...



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