Word a Day
breathe
What does breathe mean?
breathe (verb): to draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use breathe in a sentence?
- I can breathe better when the air is clean. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce breathe?
/bɹið/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does breathe come from?
From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to breathe
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “breathe” mean?
to cause (someone) to not know what to do due to some problem, situation, etc.; to bewilder, to confound, to perplex
Not quite: that's what puzzle means.
to win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event
Not quite: that's what beat means.
to draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases
Right! That's what “breathe” means.
to separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly
Not quite: that's what break means.
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