Breathe: Definition and part of speech

Breathe

  1. v. t. To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.
  2. v. i. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
  3. v. i. To take breath; to rest from action.
  4. v. i. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.
  5. v. t. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.
  6. v. t. To inject by breathing; to infuse; — with into.
  7. v. t. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.
  8. v. t. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
  9. v. t. To express; to manifest; to give forth.
  10. v. t. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.
  11. 1v. t. 1 To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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