mouth-to-mouth
- noun
- /maʊθ tə maʊθ/
- The lifeguard quickly performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the swimmer who had drowned.
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
Oh, choking hazard Callum, will you be free to give me mouth to mouth if needed?
- Oh, choking hazard Callum, will you be free to give me mouth to mouth if needed?
- And then he starts doing mouth to mouth resuscitation in Katniss's first thought is why is Fennick kissing PETA?
Examples
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You better give him some mouth-to-mouth resuscitation!
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What are you going to do, give him mouth-to-mouth?
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You might wanna try giving him mouth to mouth.
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This man gave mouth to mouth CPR to a person with a hole in their head.
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Okay, give her mouth-to-mouth .
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We need to give him a little mouth-to-mouth.
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They're getting mouth to mouth resuscitation.
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But Frank hauled him up on the bank and gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Fiction book (1994) -
I gave him mouth-to-mouth.
Fiction book (1999) -
Aloka quickly clears Max's mouth and begins to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
To breathe air into someone's lungs using your mouth when they are not breathing
A way to make someone breathe when their breathing has stopped
A way to breathe air into someone's lungs to make them start breathing again
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mouth-to-mouth comes from the simple action of putting one mouth 'to' another to give 'breath'. So mouth-to-mouth means the emergency method of breathing into someone's mouth to help them stay alive.