Definitions for respirator

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respirator res·pi·ra·tor

Spelling: [res-puh-rey-ter]

IPA: /ˈrɛs pəˌreɪ tər/

Respirator is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 757 anagrams from letters in respirator (aeioprrrst).

Definitions for respirator

noun

1. a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
2. British. gas mask.
3. Medicine/Medical. an apparatus to produce artificial respiration.

Origin of respirator

1785-95; Latin respīrāt(us) (see respiration) + -or²

Examples for respirator

She looked at the small bundle, walked over and slipped off his respirator.

Ortega is in stable but critical condition on a respirator at Weill Cornell Medical Center.

In sonorous, booming tones, somewhat muffled by his respirator.

“I used gloves and a respirator, and protective clothing,” he says.

He slipped a respirator over his head and moved into the corridor.

Once through the double portals, she pulled the respirator from her face.

“Republican Cuts Kill” is printed across the screen, with the only sound a person struggling to breathe through a respirator.

But Carina Melchior did not die after her respirator was removed.

I could see a respirator off to my right, and a suction octopus near it.

Instead, Anderson slipped into a coma and later died when his mother took him off a respirator on April 13.