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inhale

/in-heyl/US // ɪnˈheɪl //UK // (ɪnˈheɪl) //

吸气,吸,吸进,吸吸气

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    in·haled, in·hal·ing.

    • : to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    in·haled, in·hal·ing.

    • : to breathe in, especially the smoke of cigarettes, cigars, etc.: Do you inhale when you smoke?

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Examples

  • N95 masks have already been shown to both protect people wearing them from inhaling coronavirus-bearing droplets, and reduce the risk of them spreading the virus by breathing.

  • This would require inhaling hydrogen instead of oxygen, metabolizing it with acetylene instead of glucose, and exhaling methane instead of carbon dioxide.

  • Some companies are repurposing these drugs, which could be inhaled.

  • Nowadays, inhaling six or seven hot dogs a minute for 10 minutes mostly leads to digestive problems.

  • Gilead announced July 8 that it soon would begin a clinical trial to test an inhaled form of the drug.

  • If you tend to inhale your food without realizing how much you consumed, opt for nibbles like in-shell pistachio nuts.

  • TB, for example, is spread when I inhale the exhaled breath of a person with active disease.

  • The loftiest noses among the winemakers inhale the finest of scents from the tasting glass and proclaim another masterpiece.

  • They emit an odor that no human being should inhale, and yet you have.

  • So of course, Jimmy Fallon took the opportunity to ruin it by forcing Freeman to inhale helium and pitch up his voice.

  • The helmsman led me to the side of the vessel, and told me to hold my head overboard, and inhale the air.

  • I straddled his neck and pushed his head into the milk so that he was forced either to drink it or inhale it.

  • As soon as conscious breathing was necessary it was my custom deliberately to inhale on one step and exhale on the next.

  • "It's awful the way I inhale," said Slops with a melancholy sigh.

  • He felt his forehead begin to burn, so he arose to approach the window and inhale the fresh night breeze.