breathe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ēþian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath.
Inflected forms:
form: breathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: breathest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: breathedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: breathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breatheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: breathe
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: breathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
gloss: To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
gloss: To live.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.
I am in health, I breathe.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
gloss: To draw something into the lungs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Try not to breathe too much smoke.
gloss: To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
gloss: To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The flowers breathed a heady perfume.
Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning.
gloss: To give an impression of, to exude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
gloss: To whisper quietly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
gloss: To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
pos: verb
examples: The wind breathes through the trees.
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
gloss: To inspire (scripture).
pos: verb
examples: The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed."
[…] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […]
Paul says that since God breathed the Scriptures, they are therefore useful; he did not put it the other way around (i.e., that they are useful, therefore inspired).
gloss: To exchange gases with the environment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Uncork the wine and leave it on the table for a few minutes to allow it to breathe.
gloss: Of a material etc., to allow gases to pass through.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
gloss: To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed
Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
gloss: To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
gloss: To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: ―Do you like hiking? ―Are you kidding? I breathe hiking.
Synonyms: live and breathe
breathe
draw breath
inbreathe
spire
suspire
Antonyms: asphyxiate
choke
hold one's breath
suffocate
Related words: breath
exhalation
inhalation
respiration
breathable
breathability
as I live and breathe
bad breath
breathe easy
breathe down someone's neck
breathe a sigh of relief
breathe a word
catch one's breath
don't hold your breath
draw one's last breath
eat
and sleep
in the same breath
out of breath
pause for breath
save one's breath
shortness of breath
stop for breath
take one's breath away
under one's breath
waste breath
with bated breath
Derived words: airbreathing
as I live and breathe
breathable
breathe again
breathe a sigh of relief
breathe a word
breathe back to life
breathe down someone's neck
breathe easy
breathe freely
breathe in
breathe new life into
breathe one's last
breathe one's last breath
breathe out
breather
breathe upon
breathing gas
breathingly
breathing room
breathing space
breathing spell
buddy breathe
bum-breathing
embreathe
fire-breathing
imbreathe
inbreathe
misbreathe
mouth-breathe
nonbreathing
outbreathe
overbreathe
overbreathed
rebreathe
stagger breathe
unbreathed
unbreathing
underbreathe
upbreathe
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