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# inhaler

«inhaler» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe…** — 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

noun (an inhaler, inhalers)

### meaning for a pupil

A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons, children with asthma use an inhaler, often with a spacer; a blue reliever inhaler opens the airways during an attack, and a preventer inhaler is used every day. Schools keep inhalers handy, and you should tell an adult at once if a friend has trouble breathing. Phrases: «use your inhaler», «blue inhaler», «reliever inhaler».

### examples

- Jamie takes his inhaler on every school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x1)
- When she started wheezing, she used her blue inhaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x2)
- Shake the inhaler and breathe in slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x3)
- Our teacher keeps spare inhalers in the office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x4)
- A spacer helps the medicine from the inhaler reach the lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x5)
- He uses a brown inhaler every morning to prevent attacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x6)
- If an inhaler doesn't help, call for help straight away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x7)
- Never use someone else's inhaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x8)

### note

Countable; with «an»: «an inhaler». Verb «inhale» (breathe in); opposite «exhale» (breathe out). An inhaler is a medicine, not a toy, and belongs only to the person it was given to.

### In the corpora

- [Animal allergies can trigger asthma attacks that make breathing very hard; a child with asthma uses his inhaler and tells an adult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/67-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals/22/)
- [Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/2/)
- [In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/15/)
- [The blue reliever inhaler relaxes the airway muscles within minutes, like loosening a tight belt round the airways.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/1/)
- [The brown preventer inhaler calms the swelling slowly, so it only works if taken every day, even when you feel fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/14-asthma-and-inhalers/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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