Definitions
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- adjective Having
excessive ventilation .
Etymologies
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over- + ventilated
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Examples
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She has been playing at the New York Theatre, and caught a cold on that overventilated stage, as open to the winds as
Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909
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Now I had either overventilated or failed to ventilate my room.
Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885
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