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Breath

BREATH, n. breth.
1. The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
2. Life.
No man has more contempt than I of breath.
3. The state or power of breathing freely; opposed to a state of exhaustion from violent action; as, I am out of breath; I am scarce in breath.
4. Respite; pause; time to breathe; as,let me take breath; give me some breath.
5. Breeze; aid in gentle motion.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.
6. A single respiration; as, he swears at every breath.
7. An instant; the time of a single respiration; a single act.
He smiles and he frowns in a breath.
8. A word.
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.
breath appears in definitions for these words:
Afflation Afflatus Air Anaclastic Anhelation Anhelose Animal Animosity Asper Aspirant Aspirate Aspirated Aspirating Aspiration Aspire Asthma Balmy Basilisk Become Blain Blow Blowing Breath Breathable Breathe Breather Breathful Breathing Breathless Breathlessness Breeze Brokenwinded Buzz Cartilaginous Catalepsis Chin-cough Choke Conquest Conspire Contagion Cynanche Digraph Dragonet Dull Dyspnoea Efflate Effume Envy Epiglot Exhale Expiration Expire Expiring F Faintly Fan-light Fish Flamy Flatus Formal Freshness Frolick Gasp Gasping Gather Ghost Giggle Gill Grancy Groan H Halituous Heave Hiss Hooping-cough Horror Hydropneumatic Inbreathed Inflate Inform Inhale Inhaler Inhaling Insect Inspiration Inspire Inspired Inspiring Insufflation Interlude Jews-harp Kissing-comfit L Laugh Laughter Lights Long-winded Melt Mollusca Murder Murmur Noisome Orthopny Out Outbreathe Pant Pantess Panting Pantingly Perspire Pneumatic Pneumony Puff Puffed Puffing Puffingly Pussiness Pussy Q Quaintly Quicken R Rebreathe Respirable Respiration Respire Respired Respiring S Sawer Scurvy Serpent Short Short-breathed Short-winded Sigh Sighing Simony Slack Slur Sniff Snore Snuff Snuffle Sob Sound-board Soup Spare Spiracle Spiration Spire Spirit Spiritally Spiritless Steal Stifle Stop Stray Surrender Suspiral Suspiration Suspire Taint Take Thrill Throat Throttle Undulate Vainly Vanity Ventail Vibrant Vocalize Voice Wheeze Wheezing Wherry Whisper Whistle Wind Wind-instrument Windpipe Yawn Yield Zephyr

 

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