superbreath

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From super- +‎ breath. Originally from the DC Comics Superman franchises.

Noun[edit]

superbreath (countable and uncountable, plural superbreaths)

  1. (rare) An extremely powerful breath (exhalation).
    • 1982, John W. Presley, Essential Reading Skills‎[1], Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 230:
      His enormous muscles allowed him to perform any action at superspeed, and incredible lung power gave him superbreath, so he could blow the snow from an entire mountain range with one breath.
    • 1992, Michael Kandel, Captain Jack Zodiac‎[2], Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 63:
      Another creep he blew off the roof with his superbreath.
    • 1999, Victoria Baldwin Cass, Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies, and Geishas of the Ming‎[3], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 81:
      They had the power of flight — Red Thread could cover thousand of miles in a night — and the power to disappear and transform: they had the power of superbreath that sent the enemy flying, as well as the power to create armies out of cutouts: they knew of magic drugs and powerful medications.
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