From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], derived from [en]. Eclipsed [enm] and [enm], from [ang] and
[ang]; as well as [enm], [enm], from [non]. More at [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [brē _th_] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] [en] To draw air into ( inhale ), and expel air from ( exhale ), the lung s in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
2. [en] To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
3. [en] To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
4. [en] To live .
5. * [II]
6. * {{ RQ:Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel
|passage= BREATHES there a man with soul so dead?}}
1. [en] To draw something into the lungs.
2. [en] To expel air from the lungs, exhale .
3. [en] To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Timothy Groves | title=The Book Of Creatures | isbn=1105473058 | page=85
|passage=Mountain Drakes BREATHE fire, Ice Drakes BREATHE ice, Swamp Drakes
BREATHE acid, and Forest Drakes BREATHE lightning.}}
1. [en] To give an impression of, to exude .
2. [en] To whisper quietly.
3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
4. * [2]
5. * [passage=There BREATHES a living fragrance from the shore.]
6. [en] To inspire ( scripture ).
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1850 | author=John Howard Hinton | title=On the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures. A lecture, etc | page=16
|passage=The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely
BREATHED."}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1917 | author=J. C. Ferdinand Pittman | title=Bible Truths Illustrated: For the Use of Preachers, Teachers, Bible-school, Christian Endeavor, Temperance and Other Christian Workers | page=168
|passage=[...] that God, who BREATHED the Scriptures, "cannot lie," [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Jay E. Adams | title=The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling | publisher=Zondervan | isbn=9780310871736
|passage=Paul says that since God BREATHED the Scriptures, they are therefore
useful; he did not put it the other way around (i.e., that they are useful,
therefore inspired).}}
1. [en] To exchange gases with the environment.
2. [en] To rest ; to stop and catch one's breath.
3. * [12.64]
4. * {{ RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 | 2 | 4
|passage=Well! BREATHE awhile, and then to it again!}}
1. [en] To stop, to give [a horse] an opportunity to catch its breath.
2. [en] To exercise ; to tire by brisk exercise.
3. [en] To passionate ly devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
**** Conjugation
[stem=breath]
**** Synonyms
- [to draw air or other gases in and out] [en] ; _see also_ Thesaurus:breathe
- [to be passionate about] live and breathe
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|overbreathed|unbreathed|breathable|breather|embreathe|imbreathe|misbreathe|rebreathe|underbreathe|upbreathe|airbreathing|breathingly|fire-breathing|
breathe back to life|nonbreathing|unbreathing|breathe a sigh of relief|breathe
a word|breathe again|breathe down someone's neck|breathe freely|breathe one's
last|breathe one's last breath|breathe upon|buddy breathe|stagger
breathe|breathing gas|breathing room|breathing space|breathing
spell|fire-breathing |as I live and breathe|mouth-breathe|airbreathing
|breathe easy |breathe in |breathe out |inbreathe| bum-breathing
|outbreathe|breathe new life into |overbreathe }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to draw air in and out]
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Acehnese: [ace]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Atlas Tamazight: [tzm]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hiligaynon: [hil]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Itza': [itz]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [breathe in]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kinaray-a: [krj]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lingala: [ln]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Low German: [nds] , [nds]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Mam: [mam]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] [gently]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- North Frisian: [Föhr-Amrum] [frr] , [frr]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pangasinan: [pag]
- Papiamentu: [pap] , [pap]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Q'anjob'al: [kjb]
- Rapa Nui: [rap]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] )
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Waray-Waray: [war]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[to exchange gases in similar way]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to use gas to sustain life]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[figuratively: to live]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to draw into lungs]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[to expel air from the lungs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[to pass like breath]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[to give an impression of]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[to whisper quietly]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to exchange gases with the environment]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[to stop and catch one's breath]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to give an opportunity to catch breath]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[(figurative) to be passionately devoted to]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Bulgarian: [bg] < !-- Was under non-existing sense: "to be relaxed" -->
- Catalan: [ca] < !-- Was under non-existing sense: "to be relaxed" -->
- Friulian: [1] [fur]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Japanese: [ja] < !-- Was under non-existing sense: "to be relaxed" -->
- Quechua: [qu] < !-- Was under non-existing sense: "to be relaxed" -->
- Telugu: [1] [te] , [2] [te]
- Thai: [th] _breathe in_
- Turkish: [1,2,3] [tr] , [1,2,3] [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Anagrams
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