breathe

Definitions


[briːð], (Verb)

Definitions:
- take air into the lungs and then expel it, especially as a regular physiological process
(e.g: she was breathing deeply)


Phrases:
- breathe a sigh of relief
- breathe down someone's neck
- breathe freely again
- breathe new life into
- breathe one's last
- not breathe a word

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘exhale, steam’): from breath




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