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(v)
(intransitive) To breathe in and out successively.
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(idiomatic) to pause or rest after strenuous activity
(n)
(uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
(idiomatic) To take a break; to pause or relax briefly.
(intransitive) To happen.
(transitive) To emit; to produce and send forth; to come across in some manner.
(transitive) To send out or give off.
The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
(intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
(adj)
Of air: breathable.
(intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
(intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
(intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
(transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
(transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
(relational) Relating to respiration or the organs of respiration; breathing.
(intransitive) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.
(transitive, ergative) To make full
(transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
(transitive) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
(intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.
(transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
(intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
(transitive) To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
Australia, Ireland, and UK standard spelling of instill.
Dated spelling of teethe (“to grow teeth”).
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
Alternative spelling of soufflé. [(cooking, transitive) To prepare as a soufflé.]
American and Oxford British English standard spelling of revitalise.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
to separate or break down into components
A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.
(adv)
African-American Vernacular form of there.
(countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
(intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
(linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
(intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
(transitive) To supply with oxygen or air.
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(intransitive) To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.
(transitive) To treat or infuse with oxygen.
(ambitransitive) To inhale.
(transitive) To draw in as breath; inhale; inspire.
(transitive) To inbreathe; to breathe in.
(idiomatic) To inhale deeply.
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To breathe into; to inspire with.
(transitive) To give artificial respiration to
(intransitive) To blow in.
(transitive) To breathe or blow into or on.
(idiomatic, usually in a negative) To wait expectantly for something to happen soon.
The quantity taken in.
A distinctive smell.
A beverage.
An occurrence; something that happens.
(idiomatic) To relax or feel secure about something.
(obsolete) To winnow out; to fan.
(transitive) To oxygenate again or anew.
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
to ventilate again
An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
(transitive) To oxygenize again.
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
(transitive) To change or transform (something).
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
(intransitive) To perform aerobics.
Alternative form of reventilate. [to ventilate again]
To inflate or fill with air again.
To aspire again.
An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.
To oxygenate.
(obsolete, transitive) To draw in, swallow or absorb.
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
To activate (or become activated) within the lungs
A barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).
(transitive) To receive.
(intransitive) To engage in introspection.
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To devote one's time obsessively to.
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
To aerate again or anew.
(intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
(transitive) To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
(transitive) To bring out; deliver; utter; express.
(obsolete) effusion; loss
To come into existence through birth.
The transportation of freight by air.