respire
Verb
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Verb
respire (respires, present participle respiring; past and past participle respired)
- (intransitive) To breathe in and out; to engage in the process of respiration.
- 1964, H. Webb and M. A. Grigg, Modern Science Book 3, 155 ↗
- All living things respire or breathe. To many of this means that they take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
- 1964, H. Webb and M. A. Grigg, Modern Science Book 3, 155 ↗
- (intransitive) To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 10-11:
- The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.
- 1888, Edmund Shaftesbury, Lessons in Artistic Deep Breathing for Strengthening the Voice, 23 ↗:
- Second Day.—Hold the breath five seconds. Respire, and hold the breath ten seconds. Respire, and hold the breath fifteen seconds.
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 10-11:
- (transitive) To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
- 1799, M. Lesser, Insecto-Theology, 327 ↗:
- It is my opinion, that these animals, while they continue in the state of larvae, respire water and not air; and that they inspire the water, not by the mask, but by their posterior part, through which also they discharge it.
- 1799, M. Lesser, Insecto-Theology, 327 ↗:
- (to breathe in and out) see Thesaurus:breathe
respire
- (obsolete) Rest, respite.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
- He cast to suffer him no more respire, / But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld, / And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:
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