as in to gasp
to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty
he was so nervous he began hyperventilating, and the extra oxygen made him dizzy
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Wall Street has been hyperventilating over Nvidia and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
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Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
At the same time, too, this is the same man who grew up on pastoral Oregon farmland, pushing himself on pre-dawn lifts, who nearly hyperventilated in the shower before one freshman-year playoff game at Crescent Valley.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
Anyhow, Rose continues to get more and more upset and nearly starts hyperventilating.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
That makes Trump and Musk the center of the national conversation — and baits hyperventilating critics into outrageous responses.
—Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
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Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
At the same time, too, this is the same man who grew up on pastoral Oregon farmland, pushing himself on pre-dawn lifts, who nearly hyperventilated in the shower before one freshman-year playoff game at Crescent Valley.
—Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
Anyhow, Rose continues to get more and more upset and nearly starts hyperventilating.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
That makes Trump and Musk the center of the national conversation — and baits hyperventilating critics into outrageous responses.
—Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Hyperventilate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperventilate. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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