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