noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breathing exercise
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We do breathing exercises in my yoga class.
breathing difficulties
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She was taken to hospital with breathing difficulties.
breathing freely
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She was breathing freely .
breathing shallowly
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He lay there unconscious, breathing shallowly .
breathing space
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This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due.
give...breathing room
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This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due.
your heart/pulse/breathing quickens (= your heart beats faster because you are afraid, excited etc )
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She caught sight of Rob and felt her heart quicken.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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Calm your nerves by deep breathing , not by having a stiff drink.
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A tickling, dry, hard cough; great soreness in the chest on coughing or deep breathing .
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How different is this deep breathing from the shallow, uncontrolled breathing which uses only a very small part of the lungs.
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It may also be possible to promote rest by teaching some specific relaxation technique, e.g. deep breathing , yoga.
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Not least fascinating is the suggestion that deep breathing could render valium superfluous.
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Laughter is an exhilarating exercise which, like deep breathing , massages the internal organs.
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Sore chest or stitching pain with the cough or deep breathing .
heavy
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The staff relaxed, until the building started expanding and contracting - an effect they described as akin to heavy breathing .
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Faces and flames. Heavy breathing in shadows.
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They heard heavy breathing and a figure appeared round the corner, clothed in the grey garb of Godstowe Priory.
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Now she could hear heavy breathing , gasps and a grunt as some one scrambled up the rubble in front of her.
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She heard heavy breathing like panting.
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No heavy breathing , mouth noises.
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In fact, all you could hear was the repetitive pounding of rubber on tarmac and a lot of heavy breathing .
rapid
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This might be a typical presentation of acute hyperventilation caused by rapid shallow breathing during moments of high anxiety.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
shallow
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After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot.
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This might be a typical presentation of acute hyperventilation caused by rapid shallow breathing during moments of high anxiety.
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Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency.
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How different is this deep breathing from the shallow , uncontrolled breathing which uses only a very small part of the lungs.
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Jezrael's heart beat faster but she forced herself to slow the shallow breathing of panic.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
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Ursula Dean's palms were damp as panic pumped through her, escaping in hasty, shallow breathing and agitated heartbeats.
■ VERB
feel
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She felt his breathing quicken and the beat of his heart.
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She could feel her breathing quicken.
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She could smell the sweat on his body and feel his excited breathing .
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Look, listen and feel for breathing .
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I asked first about my bag and felt my breathing quicken when the chief seemed unable to find my deposition.
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Riven could feel Madra's soft breathing beside him.
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She gazed at the ceiling, feeling her heartbeat and breathing slowing to normal, her body quietening.
hear
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She heard the breathing of the sea.
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She heard Walter breathing next to her.
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He could hear Karen's regular breathing coming from a cot near the back.
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She could hear her breathing but still the whitegirl said nothing.
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They heard heavy breathing and a figure appeared round the corner, clothed in the grey garb of Godstowe Priory.
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Now she could hear heavy breathing , gasps and a grunt as some one scrambled up the rubble in front of her.
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She stood outside Anna's door until she could hear the child's breathing .
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She heard heavy breathing like panting.
listen
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For a long time she listened to his breathing , praying for sleep.
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Kate finished her cocoa, listening to Mr Blakey breathing while he drank his tea beside her.
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Look, listen and feel for breathing .
stop
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His team-mates seemed to have stopped breathing .
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The idea had almost made Simon stop breathing .
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When her youngest child was a year old, she stopped breathing .
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Sabine realised she had almost stopped breathing .
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When he stopped coughing, it was because he had stopped breathing .
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Ten seconds in which some one had stopped breathing .
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Her eyes closed, Polly stopped breathing .
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We stop breathing when we are frightened - in sudden fear of any kind we hold our breath.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be breathing down sb's neck
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I'm already really busy today, and now Paul's breathing down my neck saying he wants the Paris deal completed.
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I can't work with you breathing down my neck.
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We'd better start sending out those letters soon -- I've had the sales manager breathing down my neck about it all week.
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He would be breathing down your neck all the time.
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Labour and the Liberal Democrats are breathing down his neck.
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Maybe the Assistant Commissioner's wife was breathing down Maxham's neck.
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The staff is breathing down your neck.
heavy breathing
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The cabin was full of heavy breathing and the stink of our sweat.
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The rustling of bushes and the sounds of heavy breathing at the sandbar to the north deepened the stillness of dusk.
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The staff relaxed, until the building started expanding and contracting - an effect they described as akin to heavy breathing.
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There was no sound except the heavy breathing around him; the whole world seemed asleep.
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They heard heavy breathing and a figure appeared round the corner, clothed in the grey garb of Godstowe Priory.
pardon me for breathing/living
shallow breathing
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After recovering from an attack of shallow breathing he recovered and one nurse said he was smiling and cooing in his cot.
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Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency.
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If there is severe difficulty in breathing - shortness of breath, wheezing, laboured, rapid or shallow breathing.
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Jezrael's heart beat faster but she forced herself to slow the shallow breathing of panic.
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This might be a typical presentation of acute hyperventilation caused by rapid shallow breathing during moments of high anxiety.
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Ursula Dean's palms were damp as panic pumped through her, escaping in hasty, shallow breathing and agitated heartbeats.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Breathing became more difficult as we got higher up the mountain.
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Deep breathing is good for relaxing your mind and your body.
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The disease in his lungs made breathing very painful.
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When I picked up the phone all I heard was heavy breathing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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My chest is relaxing, my breathing is steady and light.
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She found she was sweating and her breathing had quickened.
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She massaged her collarbone gingerly and tried to calm her ragged breathing .