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| Main Entry: | bated breath |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the condition of waiting for something to happen; subdued breathing due to high emotions |
| Example: | With bated breath, they went to the mailbox every day. |
| Etymology: | 1933; based on bate meaning 'to moderate, restrain' |
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Bated breath
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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