breathe

[Breathe]

When you breathe you take air into your lungs and let it out in a regular rhythm. Living things need to breathe to live.

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To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

Verb
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"

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expel (gases or odors)

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reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked; "This rare Bordeaux must be allowed to breathe for at least 2 hours"

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take a short break from one''s activities in order to relax

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manifest or evince; "She breathes the Christian spirit"

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utter or tell; "not breathe a word"

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impart as if by breathing; "He breathed new life into the old house"

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be alive; "Every creature that breathes"

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allow the passage of air through; "Our new synthetic fabric breathes and is perfect for summer wear"

v. i.
To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

v. i.
To take breath; to rest from action.

v. i.
To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

v. t.
To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

v. t.
To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

v. t.
To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

v. t.
To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

v. t.
To express; to manifest; to give forth.

v. t.
To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.

v. t.
To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

v. t.
To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

v. t.
To put out of breath; to exhaust.

v. t.
To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

Breathe

Breathe , v. i. [imp. & p. p Breathed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing.] [From Breath.] 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead?

2. To take breath; to rest from action.

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.

Breathe

Breathe, v. t. 1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air.

2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

Able to breathe life into a stone.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

He softly breathed thy name.

Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A mother's curse, on her revolting son.

4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes. 5. To express; to manifest; to give forth.

Others articles breathe the same severe spirit.

6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. "They breathe the flute." Prior. 7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.

8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

A moment breathed his panting steed.

9. To put out of breath; to exhaust.

Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up.

10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered.

Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged [in whispering].

To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business. -- To breathe one's last, to die; to expire. -- To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood. Dryden.

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

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Usage Examples

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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Other Usage Examples

Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.