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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

7 1.0
To give off a smell or gas into the air
  • verb
  • /briːð/
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  • I wanted to breathe smoke.
  • breathe noxious fumes
  • breathe out gas

Alright, dude, if you can breathe a fart into your ass, I'm pretty sure you smoke a cigar in this.

Examples

  • Not only is it pretty gross, but we are breathing that crap in.

    Blog text (17)

  • I didn't know how Mom and Dad could stand to breathe that stuff.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Yeah, you do not wanna breathe those chemicals.

    Woody Woodpecker (2017)

  • And with firefighters toxins, they breathe them in all the time.

  • We would breathe a lot of incredibly toxic fumes and get incredibly sick.

  • If one does not take care when opening the container, breathing the fumes could become quite an immediate health problem.

    Blog text (29)

  • You have a free treasure trove inside your body if you simply start to change from mouth breathing to nose breathing.

  • Alex, because of your little escapade the other day, I've got the police breathing down my neck.

    Double Impact (1991)

  • I'm breathing dust in.

    The Mother (2003)

  • After the long run, I stood still, trying to breathe deeply and calm my racing heart.

Synonyms

to blow
vsto breathe
711 1.0

To move air forcefully using your mouth, wind, or a fan

expels gases or odors without implying strong or forceful action
to emit
vsto breathe
91 4.4

Send out light, heat, sound or gas

is limited to expelling gases or odors not all released things
to exhale
vsto breathe
62 2.6

To breathe out air or smoke from your lungs

expels gases or odors more generally not only from lungs
to exhaust
vsto breathe
  • Specialized
10 4.8

To remove gas or steam from a machine

expels gases or odors in common use rather than from machinery
to breathe out
vsto breathe
8 1.0

To push air out of your lungs

expels gases or odors in general not limited to lung output
to pass off
vsto breathe
7.1

To release gas or a bad smell quietly

expels gases or odors usually openly rather than discreetly

Antonyms

to contain
388 3.5

To keep something dangerous from spreading or getting worse

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 Much

to spew
102 5.1
to give off
57 2.6
to breathe
7 1.0
to leak
212 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

Breathe can mean to give off a smell because something seems to send out air, just like a person breathes out. So an old book or a cave that 'breathes' a smell is simply letting that smell come into the air.