To draw air into and expel it from the lungs; respire; figuratively, to live.
To make a single respiration.
To take breath; rest from action.
To pass, as air; blow: as, “when winds breathe sweet,”
To give utterance to disparaging or calumnious remarks; make insinuations: with upon.
To exhale, as an odor; emanate.
Figuratively, of inanimate things, to be instinct; be alive.
To inhale and exhale in respiration: as, to breathe vitiated air.
To inject by breathing; infuse: with into: as, “to breathe life into a stone,”
To exhale; send out as breath; express; manifest.
To exercise; keep in breath.
To inspire or blow into; cause to sound by breathing.
To utter; speak; whisper.
To suffer to rest or recover breath.
To open and bleed (a vein).