Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To breathe out.
- intransitive verb To emit air or vapor.
- intransitive verb To be given off or emitted.
- intransitive verb To blow (something) forth or breathe (something) out.
- intransitive verb To give off; emit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To send out as breath or as if by breathing; emit an effluence of; give out as vapor, either perceptible or imperceptible: as, marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
- To draw out as an effluence; cause to be sent out or emitted in vapor; evaporate: as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
- To draw forth; cause to flow, as blood.
- To rise or pass off as an effluence; go off in vapor.
- To pass through in the form of drops; ooze: noting especially bleeding from a surface in the absence of any wound.
- To hale or drag out.
- To draw, as a sword.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
- transitive verb To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate
- transitive verb To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
expel air from thelungs through the nose or mouth by action of thediaphragm . - verb intransitive To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
- verb transitive To expel (something) from the lungs by action of the
diaphragm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give out (breath or an odor)
- verb expel air
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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His tongue is still slack in his mouth and the exhale is a loud and welcome sound.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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His tongue is still slack in his mouth and the exhale is a loud and welcome sound.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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His tongue is still slack in his mouth and the exhale is a loud and welcome sound.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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I have a nurse trainee to watch over me tonight, so no "expire", just "exhale" - cheers!
Beth is no longer a human Crock-Pot, normal programming to resume! Elizabeth McClung 2008
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The sound of her exhale was the most fun to imitate at the breakfast table the next morning.
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-- "X'Hal" (which I don't think is pronounced "exhale") is the warrior-turned-goddess who Starfire worships.
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It's like an "exhale" but lots of them happened a long time ago.
Brad Balfour: Director Darren Aronofsky Brings Black Swan to Life and Reveals His Dreams and Nightmares Brad Balfour 2011
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It's like an "exhale" but lots of them happened a long time ago.
Brad Balfour: Director Darren Aronofsky Brings Black Swan to Life and Reveals His Dreams and Nightmares Brad Balfour 2011
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Sergeant Anderson, so once it was all over and you were able to kind of exhale, could you believe that you guys encountered what you did?
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Mexico is such a wonderful place when one is finally able to "exhale" and relax.
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