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Respire

verb

(past & past part. respired; pres. part. respiring)

Breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.

Undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.

Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs. Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath. "The patient is respiring"

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"Respire" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrongful to perplex, Or faulty policy to vex? In what affrights the quiet mind My bitter thoughts employment find! In what torments a common grief Do I alone expect relief! Our aching sorrows to disclose, Our discontents, our wrongs repeat, To hurl defiance at our foes, And let the soul respire, is sweet! All that my conscience wills I speak At once, and then my heart ...

— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham

... fait usage pour tenir les journaux. Cet animal a la peau noire pour le plupart, et porte un cerele blanchatre autour de son cou. On le trouve tous les jours aux dits salons, on il demeure, digere, s'il y a do quoi dans son interieur, respire, tousse, eternue, dort, et renfle quelquefois, ayant toujours le semblant de lire. On ne sait pas s'il a une autre gite que cela. Il a l'air d'une bete tres stupide, mais il est d'une sagacite et d'une vitesse extraordinaire ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... age. How many people ignorantly favour its occurrence by confining themselves to closely shut, non-ventilated, stuffy, sitting rooms, in which the carbonic acid has accumulated to a poisonous degree in the air they respire! How are these evil results to be prevented? The simple answer is, let the rooms in which you live be effectively ventilated by an incoming current of fresh air, and so arranged that no draught shall ...

— The Art of Living in Australia • Philip E. Muskett (?-1909)

Words linked to "Respire" : snore, yawn, sigh, respiration, hyperventilate, exhale, respirator, saw wood, breathe in, inhale, choke, inspire, wheeze, breathe out, saw logs, undergo, hiccup, respiratory, expire, suspire, hiccough, take a breath