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Exhale   /ɛkshˈeɪl/   Listen
verb
Exhale  v. t.  (past & past part. exaled; pres. part. exaling)  
1.
To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. "Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales."
2.
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.


Exhale  v. i.  To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. "Their inspiration exhaled in elegies."





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"Exhale" Quotes from Famous Books



... pastures boast no trail So splendid as our fretted snowshoes blaze Where, sharp across the amethystine ways, Iron Ascutney looms in azure mail, And, like a frozen grail, The frore sun sets, intolerably fair; Mute, in our homebound snow-tracks, we exhale The silvery cold, and soon — where bright logs flare — Talk the long indoor hours, till ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... called a great poet. But his Bacchanalian strain, though at times exquisite and captivating, lacks the universality of sentiment and that depth of resonance of which greatness can alone be predicated. Both his wild mirth and his sombre melancholy exhale the ...
— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... dew all turned to tears,—odour, to sighing ruth. The dew upon the hyacinth and narcissus is converted into tears: they exhale sighs, instead of fragrance. All this is in rather a falsetto tone. It has some resemblance to the more simple and touching phrase in the Elegy by Moschus (p. 65): 'Ye flowers, now in sad clusters breathe ...
— Adonais • Shelley
... was so when the thirty years' war desolated Germany, and "the quiet in the land" withdrew themselves from the agitated scene of human affairs to wait on God, embalming their hearts in hymns and poems which exhale a ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
... Forgive the past! Henceforth flowers shall bloom upon the surface Of your dwellings. The lilac in the spring Shall blossom, and the sweet briar shall exhale Its fragrant smell. E'en the drooping fuchsia Shall not be wanting to adorn your tombs; While the weeping willow, pointing downwards, Speaks significantly to the living, That a ...
— In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious • W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent


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