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Definitioner
Verb
- (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- (transitive) To use (a gas) to sustain life.
- (intransitive) Figuratively, to live.
- (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
- (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
- (transitive) To whisper quietly.
- (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
- (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
- (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
Exempel
- The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
- ~ in/out hengittää sisään/ulos
- At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.
- Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
- 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
- Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.
- He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
- The decor positively breathes classical elegance.
- There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
- Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
- The wind breathes through the trees.
- If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.
- Try not to breathe too much smoke.
- Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
- I am in health, I breathe.
- I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.
- While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
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