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| n. | 1. | Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | Air in gentle motion. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4. | Aspiration; secret prayer. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5. | Exercising; promotion of respiration. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6. | Utterance; communication or publicity by words. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7. | Breathing place; vent. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8. | Stop; pause; delay. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9. | Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10. | (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See
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| Noun | 1. |  breathing - the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation |
| Adj. | 1. | breathing - passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone" Antonyms: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic - not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest" |