Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Linguistics Voiceless.
- adjective Having breath of a specified kind. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Endowed with breath; exercised.
- Out of breath.
- In philology, uttered with breath as distinguished from voice; surd or mute.
- In compounds, having that capacity for breathing indicated by the prefix; as, short-breathed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having breath or breath as specified; usually used in combination.
- adjective uttered without voice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
breathe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uttered without voice
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Examples
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The air seemed a chilly balm, and the earth, after the heat of the day, now and again breathed soothingly against him.
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But usually, there†™ s a trick to it†powder or liquid breathed from the mouth, or a chemical reagent to reacts with carbon dioxide.
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Two years later, Martin breathed in the intoxicating scent of spice and metal.
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Lily Tomlin breathed a little life into it, but she's critical of her contributions, saying: "I think there was something in the water then."
Archive 2004-07-01 Michael Evans 2004
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Lily Tomlin breathed a little life into it, but she's critical of her contributions, saying: "I think there was something in the water then."
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Lily Tomlin breathed a little life into it, but she's critical of her contributions, saying: "I think there was something in the water then."
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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The air seemed a chilly balm, and the earth, after the heat of the day, now and again breathed soothingly against him.
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The air seemed a chilly balm and the earth, after the heat of the day, now and again breathed soothfully against him.
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There was not a word breathed against her reputation.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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Silently all four girls rose and slipped away, with a word breathed into Mrs. Merryweather's ear, begging her to keep up the singing.
The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
Louises commented on the word breathed
Wet London breathed, half-asleep, twitching here and there where night drama neurons fired: a woman getting raped; a junkie expiring; someone proposing; a baby slithering out. In the daylight the city's all brash bounce, no question of not going on. Nights you feel the exhaustion, see the going on for what it is: terror of admitting the whole thing's been a mistake. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 24, 2012