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breathe

verb as in take air in and let out

verb as in inspire action

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verb as in tell information

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You can find chemicals in the soil under your feet, in the food you eat and in the air you breathe.

Twelve of the 26, including two of the four with signs of inflamed hearts, reported mild symptoms during their infection, such as fever, sore throat, muscle aches and difficulty breathing.

I keep thinking it can’t get any harder to breathe, and somehow it still does.

In the future, there’ll probably be plenty of opportunities to breathe on each other again.

The less that people can breathe into each other’s faces, the better.

“But I could breathe freely only when the plane took off,” she told me.

I could not breathe.... When I would pass out, they would shake me and begin again.

JUDNICK: My reaction is so visceral that I immediately, like you, isolate myself so I can breathe.

It's amazing to think that someone in another country might provide you with 140 characters that allow you to breathe.

The time for remorse was when my husband was yelling to breathe!

Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

Still, if such an envelope should be handed him, he would breathe easier until it was opened.

A dead silence followed; for a minute—several minutes neither seemed to breathe.

He makes a spiritual form of it so perfectly visible to your inward eye, that it seems as if you could almost hear it breathe!

At last two are successful, and the monster, hardly able to breathe, stands quiet and still.

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breathe, such as: exhale, inhale, sigh, expire, fan, and gasp.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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