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Breathe

verb

(past & past part. breathed; pres. part. breathing)

Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs. Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath. "The patient is respiring"

Be alive.

Impart as if by breathing.

Allow the passage of air through.

Utter or tell.

Manifest or evince.

Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax. Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather.

Reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked.

Expel (gases or odors). Synonyms: emit, pass off.

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"Breathe" Quotes from Famous Books

... instant, to breathe; had returned to the attack more furiously than before; a tremendous blow of his weapon snapped my own, eighteen inches from the hilt; but this had probably saved my life instead of destroying ...

— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke

... make of you, and it is this—the common report is, that the spirit in question follows our family—I mean by my mother's side. Now I beg, as you expect my good will and countenance, that, for my sake, and out of respect for the family in general, you will never breathe a syllable of what you have seen this night. It could answer no earthly purpose, and would only send abroad idle and unpleasant rumors throughout the country. Will you ...

— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... and blind facing—he knew not what. A thick excitement choked him. Nobody spoke, but his sharpened senses told him that he was surrounded by people. He heard them breathe. The continued silence was cruel on his nerves. He imagined them moving cat-footed about him, smiling meaningly at each other as they prepared to attack. If he only had a wall ...

— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner

... being equipped at Liverpool presumably for the service of the Confederacy, and which became the famous Alabama. For two years it roved the ocean destroying Northern commerce, and not until it was sunk at last in a battle with the U. S. S. Kearsarge did all the maritime interests of the North breathe again freely. In time and as a result of arbitration, England paid for the ships sunk by the Alabama. But in 1862, the protests of the American minister fell ...

— Abraham Lincoln and the Union - A Chronicle of the Embattled North, Volume 29 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... of God—whate'er it be— The Law that abides and changes not, ages long, The Eternal and Nature-born: these things be strong. What else is Wisdom? What of Man's endeavor, Or God's high grace so lovely and so great? To stand from fear set free? to breathe and wait? To hold a hand uplifted over Fate? And shall not Barbara be ...

— Major Barbara • George Bernard Shaw

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