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Mouth-to-mouth definition

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Mouth-to-mouth is a rescue method in which you attempt to resuscitate someone by breathing into his mouth and filling his lungs with your breath.

An example of mouth-to-mouth is when someone was drowning and pulled out of the pool and you try to get him to start breathing again by breathing into his mouth and filling his lungs.

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Designating a method of resuscitation in which the rescuer breathes directly into the mouth and lungs of a person who has stopped breathing.
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Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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(slang) Kissing, particularly French kissing.
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Mouth-to-mouth Sentence Examples

  • It is regarded by the Turks as specially valuable, inasmuch as it is said to be incapable of transmitting infection as the pipe passes from mouth to mouth.

  • The stories that he told grew in their passage from mouth to mouth until the Spaniards believed that in the north were cities " very rich, having silversmiths, and that the women wore strings of gold beads and the men girdles of gold."

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