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breathe

/breeth/US // brið //UK // (briːð) //

呼吸,呼吸道,呼吸的,呼吸的时候

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v.无主动词 verb
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    breathed [breethd], /briðd/, breath·ing.

    • : to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
    • : to control the outgoing breath in producing voice and speech sounds.
    • : to pause, as for breath or rest: How about giving me a chance to breathe?
    • : to move gently or blow lightly, as air.
    • : to live; exist: Hardly a person breathes who has not known great sorrow.
    • : to be redolent or suggestive: a poem breathing of the sights and sounds of a rustic life.
    • : to allow air and moisture to pass through easily: The jacket is comfortable because the fabric breathes.
    • : to absorb oxygen and give off perspiration.
    • : to be exposed to air after being uncorked, in order to develop flavor and bouquet.
v.有主动词 verb
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    breathed [breethd], /briðd/, breath·ing.

    • : to inhale and exhale in respiration.
    • : to exhale: Dragons breathe fire.
    • : to inject as if by breathing; infuse: She breathed life into the party.
    • : to give utterance to; whisper: She breathed a prayer of thanks when everyone escaped the fire unharmed.
    • : to express; manifest: This coming-of-age novel breathes the torments and joys of adolescence.
    • : to allow to rest or recover breath: After this next hill, we should breathe the horses.
    • : to deprive of breath; tire; exhaust.
    • : to cause to pant; exercise.

Phrases

  • breathe down someone's neck
  • breathe easy
  • breathe life into
  • breathe one's last
  • as I live and breathe
  • breathing space
  • not breathe a word

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • You can find chemicals in the soil under your feet, in the food you eat and in the air you breathe.

  • Twelve of the 26, including two of the four with signs of inflamed hearts, reported mild symptoms during their infection, such as fever, sore throat, muscle aches and difficulty breathing.

  • I keep thinking it can’t get any harder to breathe, and somehow it still does.

  • In the future, there’ll probably be plenty of opportunities to breathe on each other again.

  • The less that people can breathe into each other’s faces, the better.

  • “But I could breathe freely only when the plane took off,” she told me.

  • I could not breathe.... When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.

  • JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.

  • It's amazing to think that someone in another country might provide you with 140 characters that allow you to breathe.

  • The time for remorse was when my husband was yelling to breathe!

  • Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

  • Still, if such an envelope should be handed him, he would breathe easier until it was opened.

  • A dead silence followed; for a minute—several minutes neither seemed to breathe.

  • He makes a spiritual form of it so perfectly visible to your inward eye, that it seems as if you could almost hear it breathe!

  • At last two are successful, and the monster, hardly able to breathe, stands quiet and still.