Breather

Synonyms for "breather" (66 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (14)

breath athletics blow break breathing place breathing space breathing spell breathing time calisthenics

Noun(5 words)

breath breathing place breathing space breathing spell breathing time

Strong matches (19)

cigarette break cocktail hour coffee break constitutional daily dozen downtime drill enforced respite exercise exercising gymnastic exercises gymnastics halt happy hour interlude intermission isometrics

Noun(2 words)

hiatus interregnum

Related words (33)

Noun(10 words)

lapse moratorium pause recess resting schnorchel schnorkel snorkel snorkel breather stoppage

letup lull pause physical education physical jerks practice recess respite rest runaway setting-up exercises snorkel spell stay stretch surcease suspension tea break ten time out

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truce workout yoga

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

7 entries

air duct air passage airway relief respite rest rest period

Synonyms

2 entries

breath snorkel

derived

11 entries

airbreather breather switch chest breather fire-breather firebreather interbreather mouth breather mouth-breather multibreather phonobreather take a breather

derived from

2 entries

breath breathe

has context

2 entries

mechanics physics

related to

12 entries

break breathe crankcase excitation exercise lattice localized out of breath respite rest spatially violent

Translations

20 translations across 13 languages.

Bulgarian

1 entries

отдих noun (short break)

Catalan

1 entries

respirador noun (something that breathes)

Finnish

3 entries

hengittäjä noun (something that breathes)
hengähdysaika noun (short break)
hengähdystauko noun (short break)

French

1 entries

pause noun (short break)

German

3 entries

Atempause noun (short break)
Atmende noun (something that breathes)
Verschnaufpause noun (short break)

Manx

1 entries

aash veg noun (short break)

Marathi

2 entries

विश्रांती noun (short break)
श्वसक noun (something that breathes)

Polish

1 entries

odsapka noun (short break)

Russian

1 entries

переды́шка noun (short break)

Slovak

1 entries

oddych noun (short break)

Spanish

2 entries

respirador noun (something that breathes)
respiro noun (short break)

Turkish

2 entries

ara noun (short break)
nefes alan noun (something that breathes)

Ukrainian

1 entries

перепочи́нок noun (short break)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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I need a breather.

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Take a breather.

Source: tatoeba (2250037)

Let's take a breather.

Source: tatoeba (5063320)

Tom is a fire breather.

Source: tatoeba (6769260)

Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.

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