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Respire

verb
(past & past part. respired; pres. part. respiring)
1.
Breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.
2.
Undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.
3.
Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.  Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath.  "The patient is respiring"





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"Respire" Quotes from Famous Books



... steep Of cliffs, and held the rambling brier; I've plunged below the billowy deep, Where air was sent me to respire; I've been where hungry wolves retire; And (to complete my woes) I've ran Where Bedlam's crazy crew conspire Against the life of ...
— Miscellaneous Poems • George Crabbe
... and these reflections, flying off capriciously, seemed to be angry looks launched by the unfortunate, instead of imprecations. In the middle of the gallery, the prisoner stopped for a moment, to contemplate the infinite horizon, to respire the sulphurous perfumes of the tempest, to drink in thirstily the hot rain, and to breathe a sigh ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... Ah! je respire enfin, et ma joie est extreme Que le traitre une fois se soit trahi lui-meme. Libre des soins cruels ou j'allais m'engager, Ma tranquille fureur n'a plus qu'a se venger. Qu'il meure. Vengeons-nous. ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... and perseveringly about fifteen times in a minute, until a spontaneous effort to respire is perceived, immediately upon which cease to imitate the movements of breathing, and proceed to INDUCE ...
— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne
... threshold, and seems to respire even the noisome air of the metropolis as if it were Eden. As he proceeds down Hill Street he stops, and gazes for a moment on the opposite house. What passes in his mind we know not. Perhaps he is reminded that in that mansion dwell beauty, wealth, and influence, and that ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli


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