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🌬️ To take air in ❤️ To be alive ✨ To give feeling 🧵 To let air pass 🤫 To say quietly ☕ To take a break 🍷 To air wine 👃 To give off odor
to breathe

to breathe

57 3.5
To show a strong feeling in something
  • verb
  • /briːð/
translation icon : dar vida a
  • He has won here at Pride 8 championship over Ricardo Morais, breathing new life into his career.
  • breathe life into
  • breathe new life into

Like the NHL lives, breathes, sleeps hockey, we have.

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Examples

  • Their love is so much like breathing that it's a part of you, a leg, a lung.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • So as you breathe, I want you to imagine yourself breathing into those areas.

  • Thank you for breathing youth into me.

  • I have breathed life into a machine.

    S1m0ne (2002)

  • Memories of moments spent in certain locales breathe life into both writers' novels.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Has there ever been a writer more proficient at breathing life into a character than Charles Dickens?

    Academic text (2010)

  • In his eulogy, Guillet speaks repeatedly of Lerambert's figures as living, breathing things, not just as statues.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The director is credited with breatheing new life into the old play, making it feel fresh and relevant.

  • His inspiring speech helped breathe hope into the hearts of the community during tough times.

  • The artist managed to breathe creativity into her work, captivating the audience's imagination.

Synonyms

to imbue
vsto breathe
22 6.9

To fill a person or thing with a particular quality

emphasizes outward expression or visible showing rather than deep internal permeation

Antonyms

to conceal
282 3.7

To hide something so others cannot see or find it

to suppress
176 4.8

To stop public protest by force or by people in power

Idioms

to breathe a word
  • Informal
12 6.3

To tell someone a secret that should be kept

to breathe a sigh of relief
  • Informal
12 2.5

To feel very relieved after a time of worry

to live and breathe
  • Informal
9 4.8

To be very excited about something and always make it a main part of life

to breathe one's last
  • Literature
2 7.9

To stop living

Phrasal Verbs

to breathe in
54 1.0

To take air into your lungs through your nose or mouth

to breathe down someone's neck
  • Informal
14 7.5

To watch or pressure someone closely so they feel nervous

to breathe out
8 1.0

To push air out of your lungs

to breathe easy
  • Informal
5 3.4

To feel relaxed and relieved after a worrying time

How Strong

to permeate
24 6.0
to imbue
1 7.7
to breathe
57 3.5
to evoke
71 4.8
to suggest
∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

breathe infinitive
breathed past
breathed past participle
breathing present participle
breathes third person singular

Morphology

breathe = breath (semi-transparent) = breath + e

Figurative use 'to breathe life into' is clearly derived from the literal idea of giving breath/life, but it is a metaphorical extension.

Etymology

Breathe is used for showing a feeling because of the image of air filling a space, like breath fills your lungs. So if a room or writing 'breathes' calm or tradition, it means it is full of that feeling.