Synonyms for breathe
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Take a breath
take a breath, draw breath, rest, catch one's breath, give out, respire, sigh, take a breather, pause, suspire formal dated
4. Live and breathe
Definitions
- v. 1
To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- v. 2
To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.
- v. 3
To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.
- v. 4
To live.
I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe.
Related words
- Word family
- breathability breather breath
- Phrases
- breathe in breathe out live and breathe
- Is a kind of
- respire
Forms
- Past participle
- breathed
e.g. breathed → rested, respired, sighed, paused…
Example sentences
- sigh When David got down, he breathed a sigh of relief.
- exhale Leon heard a slight exhale from behind the couch.
- whisper Ziri heard an unintelligible whisper in the dark.
By length
- 4 letters
- show1, live1, rest1, sigh1, gasp1, emit2, pant1, waft1
- 5 letters
- exist2, pause1, sniff1, snuff1, heave1
- 6 letters
- inhale2, exhale2, infuse2, wheeze1
- 7 letters
- express2, whisper2, respire, suspire
- 8 letters
- indicate3, manifest3, aspirate3
- 9 letters
- ventilate3, inbreathe
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (emit2 = 2 syllables).