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[ US /ˈbɹið/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈiːð/ ]
VERB
  1. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
    I can breathe better when the air is clean
    The patient is respiring
  2. 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
  3. be alive
    Every creature that breathes
  4. allow the passage of air through
    Our new synthetic fabric breathes and is perfect for summer wear
  5. manifest or evince
    She breathes the Christian spirit
  6. utter or tell
    not breathe a word
  7. impart as if by breathing
    He breathed new life into the old house
  8. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
  9. expel (gases or odors)

How To Use breathe In A Sentence

  • If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left? Times, Sunday Times
  • Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.
  • She breathed her advice softly.
  • I could feel the cold upon my skin; I breathed it into my lungs along with the heavy smell of formalin. NIGHT SISTERS
  • The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres.
  • It's a natural material so it breathes, allowing the feet to breathe as well.
  • Maybe you need a breather. The Sun
  • The air in the building was dark and brown, like the air the rank and file breathed down under the ground.
  • Tiktaalik would have breathed like a lungfish, says Clack, senior assistant curator at Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology.
  • Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
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