Usually means: Breathing excessively fast and deep.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperventilate: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyperventilate, hyperventilate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyperventilate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyperventilate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyperventilate: Vocabulary.com
  6. hyperventilate: Wordnik
  7. hyperventilate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hyperventilate: Wiktionary
  9. hyperventilate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hyperventilate: Dictionary.com
  11. hyperventilate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. hyperventilate: Rhymezone
  13. hyperventilate: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hyperventilate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hyperventilate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. hyperventilate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperventilate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyperventilate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hyperventilate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyperventilate: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (intransitive) To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.

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