Definition of "breathe"

breathe

/bɹiːð/

verb
third-person singular simple present breathes, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed
1. (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
2. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
3. (transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To live.
  Quotations
  I am in health, I breathe.
  1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
  1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […]
5. (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
6. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
7. (transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
  Quotations
  Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning.
  2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 85
8. (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
9. (transitive) To whisper quietly.
10. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
  Quotations
  The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
  1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], (please specify the stanza number)
11. (chiefly Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, with God as agent) To inspire (scripture).
  Quotations
  The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed."
  1850, John Howard Hinton, On the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures. A lecture, etc, page 16
  […] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […]
  1917, J. C. Ferdinand Pittman, Bible Truths Illustrated: For the Use of Preachers, Teachers, Bible-school, Christian Endeavor, Temperance and Other Christian Workers, page 168
  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).
  2010, Jay E. Adams, The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling, Zondervan
12. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
13. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
  Quotations
  Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X
  Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
14. (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
15. (transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
16. (transitive, figurative) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).

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