A breath-based relaxation technique that involves visualizing a journey around the four sides of a square, pausing while travelling horizontally and breathing in while travelling up the square and out while travelling down it.

short-winded; panting; breathless; in a state of breathlessness

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waste breath

simple past tense and past participle of waste breath

present participle of waste breath

alternative form of breathholding

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, one's, breath. To keep air in one's lungs, pausing noticeably before exhaling after previously inhaling.

(idiomatic) Something relieving, refreshing, or new.

(of something said) Softly, so as not to be heard.

(genetics) The transient, lateral opening of a base pair in a nucleic acid molecule as a result of thermal motion or the presence of a defect