Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to breathe
Participle: breathed
Gerund: breathing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | breathe |
| you | breathe |
| he;she;it | breathes |
| we | breathe |
| you | breathe |
| they | breathe |
Perfect
| I | have breathed |
| you | have breathed |
| he;she;it | has breathed |
| we | have breathed |
| you | have breathed |
| they | have breathed |
Past
| I | breathed |
| you | breathed |
| he;she;it | breathed |
| we | breathed |
| you | breathed |
| they | breathed |
Pluperfect
| I | had breathed |
| you | had breathed |
| he;she;it | had breathed |
| we | had breathed |
| you | had breathed |
| they | had breathed |
Future
| I | will breathe |
| you | will breathe |
| he;she;it | will breathe |
| we | will breathe |
| you | will breathe |
| they | will breathe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have breathed |
| you | will have breathed |
| he;she;it | will have breathed |
| we | will have breathed |
| you | will have breathed |
| they | will have breathed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | breathe |
| you | breathe |
| he;she;it | breathe |
| we | breathe |
| you | breathe |
| they | breathe |
Perfect
| I | have breathed |
| you | have breathed |
| he;she;it | have breathed |
| we | have breathed |
| you | have breathed |
| they | have breathed |
Imperfect
| I | breathed |
| you | breathed |
| he;she;it | breathed |
| we | breathed |
| you | breathed |
| they | breathed |
Pluperfect
| I | had breathed |
| you | had breathed |
| he;she;it | had breathed |
| we | had breathed |
| you | had breathed |
| they | had breathed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would breathe |
| you | would breathe |
| he;she;it | would breathe |
| we | would breathe |
| you | would breathe |
| they | would breathe |
Perfect
| I | would have breathed |
| you | would have breathed |
| he;she;it | would have breathed |
| we | would have breathed |
| you | would have breathed |
| they | would have breathed |
Imperative
| you | breathe |
| we | Let's breathe |
| you | breathe |
Verbs conjugated like 'breathe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'breathe'
wreathe,
bathe,
beath,
bebathe,
breach,
breadthen,
breste,
create,
embreathe,
imbreathe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to be passionate about
- live and breathe
- to breathe
- inbreathe, suspire
- to breathe in and out
- respire
- To whisper quietly.
- sough
- to draw air into the lungs
- draw breath, respire, suspire
- respire
- insufflate, inhale, exhale
- exist
- move
Antonyms
- to stop living; to become dead
- be born, live, rise from the dead, subsist, die
- to draw air into the lungs
- asphyxiate, choke, suffocate
- intentionally cease breathing
- hold one's breath
Additional Information
Etymology
From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ēþian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath.
Sample Sentences
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[...] commenced with a hymn, to which succeeded an extemporary prayer. It had the fault of frequent repetition, incidental to all such prayers; but it was plain and comprehensive in its doctrines, and breathed a tone of general sympathy and charity, which is not so commonly a characteristic of this form of address to the Deity as it might be. That done he opened his discourse, taking for his text a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as these ? Do men and women, against whom no crime is proved, lie here all night in perfect darkness, surrounded by the noisome vapours which encircle that flagging lamp you light us with, and breathing this filthy and offensive stench ! Why, such indecent and disgusting dungeons as these cells, would bring disgrace upon the most despotic empire in the world! Look at them, man—you, who see them [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] small flag-bottomed rocking-chair, with a patch-work cushion in it, neatly contrived out of small pieces of different colored woollen goods, and a larger sized one, motherly and old, whose wide arms breathed hospitable invitation, seconded by the solicitation of its feather cushions,—a real comfortable, persuasive old chair, and worth, in the way of honest, homely enjoyment, a dozen of your plush or [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] for assistance; the woman seated among their wandering household gods with a baby at her breast, a picture of forlorn, dejected patience; the team of oxen crouching down mournfully in the mud, and breathing forth such clouds of vapour from their mouths and nostrils, that all the damp mist and fog around seemed to have come direct from them.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] with so many happy associations, that I conceived upon the spot a special regard for all airs blowing from that quarter of the compass, which I shall cherish, I dare say, until my own wind has breathed its last frail puff, and withdrawn itself for ever from the mortal calendar.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of humanity, come in what shape it would. I was found in the cabins and among the field-hands a great deal, and, of course, was a great favorite; and all sorts of complaints and grievances were breathed in my ear; and I told them to mother, and we, between us, formed a sort of committee for a redress of grievances. We hindered and repressed a great deal of cruelty, and congratulated ourselves on [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ When father died, he left the whole property to us twin boys, to be divided as we should agree. There does not breathe on God's earth a nobler-souled, more generous fellow, than Alfred, in all that concerns his equals; and we got on admirably with this property question, without a single unbrotherly word or feeling. [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] Tom was in a good deal of trouble, for the forms of some of the letters he had forgotten entirely; and of what he did remember, he did not know exactly which to use. And while he was working, and breathing very hard, in his earnestness, Eva alighted, like a bird, on the round of his chair behind him, and peeped over his shoulder.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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And the “ rest of them ” had good reason to breathe the same prayer, for Marie paraded her new misery as the reason and apology for all sorts of inflictions on every one about her. Every word that was spoken by anybody, everything that was done or [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and almost insensibly increasing; and she was so beautiful, so loving, so trustful, so happy, that one could not resist the soothing influence of that air of innocence and peace which seemed to breathe around her. St. Clare found a strange calm coming over him. It was not hope,—that was impossible; it was not resignation; it was only a calm resting in the present, which seemed so beautiful that he [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[Reagan exhales] [low growl] - [ growling grows louder ] - [ breathing heavily ]
(Werewolves)
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And he's not breathing as heavily. These are both very similar to the side effects
(Tacoma)
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(inhales sharply) (breathing heavily ): A shadow pressing.
(Nosferatu)
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No way ! Let me check if he is still breathing. He is still breathing; not dead.
(Nunakuzhi)
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(shrieking) (shriek fades) (breathing weakly ) THOMAS: Ellen. (bell tolling in distance )
(Nosferatu)