Definition of Breathe

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Breathe

To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

To take breath; to rest from action.

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.

To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

To express; to manifest; to give forth.

To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.

To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

To put out of breath; to exhaust.

To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

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Breathe Quotations

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

Breathe Translations

breathe in Afrikaans is asem
breathe in Dutch is ademhalen, ademen
breathe in French is respirent, respiration, respirez, respirer
breathe in German is atme, atmen, atmen
breathe in Italian is fiatare
breathe in Portuguese is respire
breathe in Spanish is respire, respirar
breathe in Swedish is andas

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