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breathe English

Meaning breathe meaning

What does breathe mean?
Definitions in simple English

breathe

If you breathe, you inhale and exhale air.

breathe

(= respire) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs I can breathe better when the air is clean The patient is respiring impart as if by breathing He breathed new life into the old house be alive Every creature that breathes allow the passage of air through Our new synthetic fabric breathes and is perfect for summer wear utter or tell not breathe a word manifest or evince She breathes the Christian spirit 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 (= emit) expel (gases or odors) (= rest) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

Synonyms breathe synonyms

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Topics breathe topics

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Conjugation breathe conjugation

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breathe · verb

Examples breathe examples

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Simple sentences

The air we breathe consists of oxygen and nitrogen.
I can't breathe.
I'm going to open the wine and let it breathe.
It's hard to breathe.
We breathe, eat and speak with the mouth.
It is like the air we breathe.
I promised not to breathe a word of the secret.
All people breathe air.
The man who nearly drowned began to breathe.
He could not breathe deeply.
I can't breathe through my nose.
Please breathe through your nose.
In high altitudes, people find it hard to breathe.
The room was so full of smoke that I could hardly breathe.
While I breathe, I hope.
I want to breathe some fresh air.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
When you breathe out in cold weather, you can see your breath.
Merely to breathe does not mean to live.
However, they can help him breathe with a machine.
Don't breathe a word of it to anyone.
I was unable to breathe because of the smoke.
Let's breathe the fresh air.

Movie subtitles

Stop, breathe, think!
We eat through our mouths but we breathe through our mouths and we can choke on food.
Maybe they don't need to breathe.
Singing? - Nurse Gilbert said she'd given you the Breathe Your Way To Serenity leaflet.
I'm afraid Wilma's struggling to breathe because of the blood clot in her chest.
That's it, just breathe.
Breathe, Shelagh.
Breathe with me, okay?
Just breathe with me.
Sore from constant speech, throats breathe heavily and unevenly.
Kolya has just played such a fine Queen's Gambit! I can't breathe!
First though we have to do an air sample, to tell whether we can breathe outside!
I felt as if I couldn't breathe enough air into me.
Will you swear by almighty god that you and your family and that agent of yours won't breathe a word of this shocking thing to a mortal soul?
Breathe with me, okay? Just breathe with me.
In this prison, you can only eat. sleep. and breathe.
As I live and breathe, a taxicab in the middle of the Black Forest.
Just to be alone in your room, to breathe the air you breathe.
Don't breathe before then.
It's hard enough for a man to breathe up here as it is.
If ever you breathe the name of Diavolo again or tell anyone who I am I'll find a tree for both of you.
I put you on your honour, Kemp, not to breathe a word of this to anyone.
Louis! Don't breathe a word. to anyone.
They live and breathe. - Like me in the jail, for instance!
Like the stars over the night, like the air to breathe.
It's to help breathe, needs lengthening.
We'll discuss this later when I can safely breathe through my nose.
Can't you breathe either?
I've got a chance to breathe something else and boy I'm grabbing it.
The larvae have to rise to the surface to breathe.
I breathe only for you.
Don't you dare breathe that young reprobate's name to Cousin Ezra.
Well, all the trout can breathe easy for another year, huh, V. S?
I can't breathe!

News and current affairs

When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief.
Should this be the outcome, European governments would breathe a sigh of relief.
We all breathe the same air.
NEW YORK - The world can breathe easier with the reelection this month of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a second term in office.
We don't want to breathe any other.
Youthful glassmakers in Brazil breathe toxic silicone and arsenic fumes.
One-quarter of China's people drink substandard water; one-third of urbanites breathe badly polluted air.
New parties may arise and breathe more life into elections and representative government.
Over a period of a few years, her muscles will weaken until she can no longer walk, use her hands, chew, swallow, speak, and ultimately, breathe.
Not until Margaret Thatcher broke their power was the country able to breathe freely and renew itself.
Even the International Monetary Fund's forecast of a modest improvement in 2013 is predicated on the government's ability to breathe life into a spate of stalled economic reforms.
There are lots of organizations like that, waiting to be liberated, their employees yearning to breathe free.
So, for the past three months, Golubchuk has had a tube down his throat to help him breathe and another in his stomach to feed him.
The animals burn up most of that food's energy just to breathe and keep their bodies warm, so we end up with a small fraction - usually no more than one-third and sometimes as little as one-tenth - of the food value that we feed them.
They may suffocate in the net, because, with their gills constricted, they cannot breathe.
Indeed, those who fear the job-destroying and job-shifting power of automation should look upon the sharing economy and breathe a bit of a sigh of relief.
But there is an increasing realization that we cannot breathe easy just yet.
Policy wonks and interested Asians alike often say that when Republicans are in power in America, Asians breathe a confident sigh of relief.
America's friends and allies need to think hard about what sort of regional order they want, and they must begin to collaborate in order to breathe life into a structure of peace within which all of Asia can prosper and feel secure.
Indian children inhale large doses of sulphur and potassium chlorate to fashion flammable powder into matches. Youthful glassmakers in Brazil breathe toxic silicone and arsenic fumes.
Concerns over nuclear weapons' costs and inherent dangers have led to a global outpouring of ideas to breathe new life into nuclear disarmament.
Some observers, fearing a rising China, will breathe a sigh of relief at its current difficulties.

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