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UK
/ɹɪspˈaɪə/
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VERB
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draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
I can breathe better when the air is clean
The patient is respiring - breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety
- undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide
How To Use respire In A Sentence
- The conch shell in Botticelli's picture, always traditionally associated with Venus, comes from such a creature, one which respires by means of a copper-process.
- Those patients randomized to respire supplemental oxygen during exercise training succeeded in training at higher training intensities than those respiring supplemental air.
- He was able to then clear enough seawater to respire effectively.
- B. madritensis also respired significantly less in monoculture than in mixed culture, but the difference was apparent immediately after labelling.
- Immediately after I rose from my bed I never failed, if the weather was fine, to run to the terrace to respire the fresh and salubrious air of the morning.
- Bemegride fibroplasia triptych photoanode respire metallometric psylla gph multilink stigmatic signet? Top Headlines from World Press Review
- On y respire un air embaume par une multitude de fleurs agreables qui se succedent toute l'annee, et dont l'odeur suave penetre jusqu'a l'ame, et inspire la volupte la plus seduisante. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
- `The bacteria in the cytoplasm are commensal, but not symbiotic - they help the cell respire and metabolize its food. VITALS
- In addition to being able to respire with oxygen, some microaerophiles may be capable of respiring anaerobically with electron acceptors other than oxygen.
- Bon a dire vrai je n'ai jamais eu de truc vraiment grave alors la je me retrouve avec un truc qui quand meme m'empeche de respirer alors forcement des que l'occasion fait que j'entends ma respiration, je me concentre dessus, je prends conscience que je respire mal, j'angoisse, j'etouffe et hop crise de panique! Pinku-tk Diary Entry