deep breath
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2.2
- noun
- /dip brɛθ/
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respiración profunda
- If you feel overwhelmed, take a few deep breaths and admit that you are feeling overwhelmed.
- take a deep breath
- slow deep breaths
Then a big deep breath will settle the voice right down.
- Then a big deep breath will settle the voice right down.
- You sit and take some deep breaths and ask yourself some really good questions.
- close your eyes, deep breath in, long breath out.
- That will be a full deep breath utilizing the entire lung capacity.
- And I remember like very distinctly taking that deep breath and deciding to go sit with them.
- So deep breath, here's the truth, I don't know either.
- Take some deep breaths, relax, live in the moment and just enjoy life.
- And he goes take a deep breath and just boom.
Examples
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Before starting the presentation, I took a deep breath to help ease my nerves.
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Take a deep breath.
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Take a long deep breath and take it all in.
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Release it out and another deep breath in and then out.
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I want you to take a deep breath for me.
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Now, take a deep breath.
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I could hear him taking a deep breath, trying to steady himself.
Fiction book (1990) -
I had to stop and take a deep breath to compose myself.
Fiction book (1990) -
The presiding judge is notified, and you take a deep breath, relieved to put the matter behind you.
Academic text (2017) -
Now, having done this, you take a deep breath, keep the throat well open, and out comes…
Synonyms
24
4.1
Breathing air or gas into the lungs
2
3.1
The air you take in one breath
A deep breath that fills the lungs with air
How Deep
205
2.2
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an act of inhaling a large amount of air' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'deep' (large/intense) + 'breath' (air drawn into the lungs), so a B1 learner who knows both words should infer the MWE meaning. This adjective+noun combination is a literal, cross-linguistically common pattern, making the phrase immediately transparent.
Etymology
The noun deep breath comes from the simple action of taking a large amount of air into your lungs. People often take a deep breath before speaking or when they feel nervous to steady their body and mind, so it now means 'to pause and calm down'.