breathe
呼吸,呼吸道,呼吸的,呼吸的时候
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Definitions
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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.
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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
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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.