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[ verb ] draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
Examples "I can breathe better when the air is clean" "The patient is respiring" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed , brushed , and taking_breaths of air , and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy , a grace of history , so_to_speak , and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink , and said , `` I admit that going back to Ralph_Waldo_Emerson for humor is like going_to a modern musical_comedy for music and comedy '' . |
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