hyperventilate
- v produce hyperventilation in
The nurses had to hyperventilate the patient - v breathe excessively hard and fast
The mountain climber started to hyperventilate
- The cable news networks hyperventilate.
- You'd hyperventilate too especially if, for the first time in memory, you don't have a job lined up.
- They will forgive Obama's less-flattering connections but hyperventilate over McCain's, or vice versa.