Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exhaust or deprive of breath.
- To breathe out; expire.
- To issue as the breath; exhale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To issue, as breath; to be breathed out; to exhale.
- transitive verb To breathe forth.
- transitive verb To cause to be out of breath; to exhaust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
exhaust ordeprive ofbreath . - verb transitive To
breathe out;expire . - verb intransitive To
issue as a breath;exhale .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From out- + breathe.
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In a nutshell you focus on someone else’s (someone you directly know – ummm YOU!) pain/suffering/fear/etc on the inbreathe and on the outbreathe you send them (YOU!) peace, love, compassion, happiness, assurity, optimism – whatever you feel they need.
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