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# breathe

«breathe» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take air into your body and let it out again** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (breathe, breathes, breathed, breathing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To breathe is to take air into your body and let it out again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#m1)

2) To breathe in is to take air in; to breathe out is to let it out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#m2)

3) To breathe can mean to say very softly: «She breathed a word». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#m3)

4) To breathe freely is to feel safe and relaxed, without fear of being caught. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

an action with a rate: breaths per minute; in science, lungs take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide; fish breathe with gills; phrases «breathe in», «breathe out», «take a deep breath», «out of breath»

### examples

- A person breathes about 16 times a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x1)
- How many breaths in 5 minutes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x2)
- A whale can hold its breath for 20 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x3)
- She breathes in for 4 seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x4)
- Breathe in slowly through your nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x5)
- Fish breathe through their gills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x6)
- Take a deep breath when you feel upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x7)
- After the race I could hardly breathe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x8)
- Plants help us breathe by making oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x9)
- We breathe faster when we run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x10)
- Robbers and smugglers could breathe freely here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/#x11)

### note

A rate per minute: total = rate × minutes. Trap: watch the time units. «Breathe» (verb, long ee sound) and «breath» (noun, short e sound) are different words.

### In the corpora

- [Slow breathing, such as breathing in while counting to four and out while counting to six, helps calm a racing heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/21/)
- [Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/11/)
- [Whales are mammals: they breathe air, are warm-blooded, give birth to live young and feed them milk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/6/)
- [Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/7/)
- [Dolphins sleep with half of their brain at a time, switching sides, so they can keep coming up to breathe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breathe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breathe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.