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BREATHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uttered without voice
Example:
voiceless whispers
Synonyms:
breathed; voiceless
Classified under:
Similar:
inaudible; unhearable (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb breathe
Context examples:
A device for giving medicines in the form of a spray that is inhaled (breathed in) through the nose or mouth.
(Inhaler, NCI Dictionary)
Loose asbestos fibers breathed into the lungs can cause several serious diseases, including lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma (cancer found in the lining of the lungs, chest, or abdomen).
(Asbestos, NCI Dictionary)
The extra oxygen is breathed in along with normal air.
(Oxygen Therapy, NCI Dictionary)
There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
At length he opened his eyes; he breathed with difficulty and was unable to speak.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The truth rushed on her; and how she could have spoken at all, how she could even have breathed, was afterwards matter of wonder to herself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The very atmosphere he breathed was surcharged with hatred and malice, and this but served to increase the hatred and malice within him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In contrast, if they made the astrocytes chattier by increasing transmission, the rats breathed at higher resting rates and sighed more often.
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
I breathed again: my blood resumed its flow.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Professor breathed hard and said nothing.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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