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Exhale

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An exhalation.

    "Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale."

Verb
  1. 1
    To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. intransitive
  2. 2
    expel air wordnet
  3. 3
    To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. transitive
  4. 4
    give out (breath or an odor) wordnet
  5. 5
    To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. intransitive

    "Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence."

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  1. 6
    To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.). transitive

    "The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia."

  2. 7
    To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour. transitive

    "The sun exhales the moisture of the earth."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

Etymology 2

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

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