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/ˈlʌŋ/ · noun
(anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood..
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]
Use lung when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lung means (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood..
Common synonyms include bellows, lights.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
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