transcription, транскрипция: [ bri:ð ]
( breathes, breathing, breathed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
When people or animals breathe , they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
He stood there breathing deeply and evenly...
No American should have to drive out of town to breathe clean air...
A thirteen year old girl is being treated after breathing in smoke.
VERB : V , V n , V n with in/out
• breath‧ing
Her breathing became slow and heavy...
He heard only deep breathing.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
2.
If someone breathes something, they say it very quietly. ( LITERARY )
‘You don’t understand,’ he breathed.
VERB : V with quote , also V n
3.
If you do not breathe a word about something, you say nothing about it, because it is a secret.
He never breathed a word about our conversation.
VERB : with brd-neg , no cont , V n
4.
If someone breathes life, confidence, or excitement into something, they improve it by adding this quality. ( WRITTEN )
It is the readers who breathe life into a newspaper with their letters.
= instil
VERB : V n into n
5.
to be breathing down someone’s neck: see neck
to breathe a sigh of relief: see sigh