Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To draw (air or smoke, for example) into the lungs by breathing; inspire.
- intransitive verb Informal To consume rapidly or eagerly; devour.
- intransitive verb To breathe in; inspire.
- intransitive verb To draw smoke into the lungs; puff.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw in, as air into the lungs; draw in by breathing, or by some analogous process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; ; -- opposed to exhale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To draw
air into thelungs , through the nose or mouth by action of thediaphragm . - verb transitive To draw
air or any form ofgas (either in a pure form, or mixed with smallparticles in form ofaerosols /smoke -sometimes stemming from amedicament ) into thelungs , through the nose or mouth by action of thediaphragm . - verb transitive, figuratively To
eat veryquickly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb draw deep into the lungs in by breathing
- verb draw in (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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I figure any day I can still wake up and inhale is a win.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations 2010
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To say you didn’t inhale is to declare yourself to have been the clueless Mr. Jones in Dylan’s famous song and expecting to get credit for it!
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To say you didn’t inhale is to declare yourself to have been the clueless Mr. Jones in Dylan’s famous song and expecting to get credit for it!
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(Although Bill says he didn't inhale, which is pure bullsheet!)
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What they are saying, telling us at this point is this that there -- this is inhalational anthrax, something you actually inhale, which is the more rare of the three -- the three being: cutaneous, going right through the skin, GI, something that you'd actually swallow, or inhalational, as the case is here.
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And rather than be a man and admit it, he said whether or not he took drugs depended on the word "inhale".
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To be fair to Mansbridge and Klein, both quintessentially Canadian, they probably did mean it in the "inhale" sense, as Stephanie said above, and Kim reinforced.
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The planet where Bill Clinton didn't "inhale" or the one where George W. Bush didn't (allegedly) snort coke off the ass of a Mexican hooker?
Hillary Campaign Official Says GOP Will Target Obama For Drug Use 2009
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The planet where Bill Clinton didn't "inhale" or the one where George W. Bush didn't (allegedly) snort coke off the ass of a Mexican hooker?
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Next you'll tell me you didn't "inhale" when she offered you a doobie.
From penetrating the world of prostitution to penetrating the prostitute. Ann Althouse 2008
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