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Breathed   /briðd/   Listen
Breathed

adjective
1.
Uttered without voice.  Synonym: voiceless.  "Voiceless whispers"


Breathe

verb
(past & past part. breathed; pres. part. breathing)
1.
Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.  Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath.  "The patient is respiring"
2.
Be alive.
3.
Impart as if by breathing.
4.
Allow the passage of air through.
5.
Utter or tell.
6.
Manifest or evince.
7.
Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax.  Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather.
8.
Reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked.
9.
Expel (gases or odors).  Synonyms: emit, pass off.



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"Breathed" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoulders; and she wore a loose brocaded dressing-gown beneath it. Her hands, clasped as if in prayer, emerged out of deep lace-fringed sleeves, and were covered with rings. But it was the air of almost superhuman delicacy that breathed from her most forcibly; and, when she spoke, a ring of assured decision revealed her quiet consciousness of royalty. It was an extraordinary mingling of fragility and power, of which this feminine and royal room was the ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson
... of this!' breathed Havill to Dare, as he buttoned his coat over his white waistcoat. 'I told you it was true, but you wouldn't believe. I wouldn't she should catch me here eavesdropping ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... a faint touch of Greek story, wedded to Eastern and mediaeval elements, in its roving imaginations. It is admirably pictorial, and the air which broods over it is the sunny and still air which, in men's fancy, was breathed by the happy children of the Golden Age. I quote a great part ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... uncertainties; making fair little suggestions, and giving stray touches of light, in a way that is altogether hopeful and beguiling. And so, when that weary moonlight night had spent its glitter, and the tender dawn came up, Hazel breathed free over a new thought. Mr. Falkirk might be mistaken! His own business might fill Mr. Rollo's hands until the second week in October, that word proved nothing at all about his staying away. She would wait and see. No use in trusting people just while you can keep watch. And so, though ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... "This world is the real hell, ending in the eternal naught. The dreams of a life beyond and of re-union there are but a demon's mocking breathed into the mortal heart, lest by its universal suicide mankind should rob him of his torture-pit. There is no truth in all your father taught you" (he was a clergyman and rather eminent in his profession), "there is no hope for man, there is nothing he can win ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard


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