I don't like to inhale someone's smoke while I'm working.
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Inhale
Synonyms for "inhale" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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11 entriesTranslations
122 translations across 49 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εἰσπνέω verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Arabic
1 entries- شَهَقَ verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Armenian
1 entries- ներշնչել verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Assamese
1 entries- উশাহ লোৱা verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Asturian
2 entries- aspirar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inspirar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Belarusian
2 entries- удыха́ць verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- удыхну́ць verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Bulgarian
3 entries- вди́шам verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- вди́швам verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- инхали́рам verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Catalan
3 entries- aspirar inspirar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inhalar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhalar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 吸 verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- 吸氣 /吸气 verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吸 verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- 吸入 verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- 吸入 verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- 吸氣 /吸气 verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Czech
1 entries- nadechnout se verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Danish
1 entries- inhalere verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Dutch
1 entries- inademen verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Esperanto
2 entries- enspiri verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhali verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Finnish
4 entries- ahmia verb (to eat fast)
- hengittää verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- hengittää sisään verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhaloida verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
French
4 entries- aspirer verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- ingurgiter verb (to eat fast)
- inhaler verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inspirer verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Galician
4 entries- aspirar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- devorar verb (to eat fast)
- inhalar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhalar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
German
2 entries- einatmen verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhalieren verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Greek
1 entries- εισπνέω verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Hebrew
1 entries- שָׁאַף verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Hungarian
4 entries- befal verb (to eat fast)
- belehel verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- belélegez verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- belélegzik verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Ido
1 entries- aspirar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Italian
3 entries- inalare verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inalare verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inspirare verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Japanese
2 entries- 吸い込む verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- 吸入する verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្រូប verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Korean
2 entries- 빨아들이다 verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- 흡입하다 verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Macedonian
2 entries- вдише verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- вдишува verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Māori
3 entries- mote verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- whakaea verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- whakangā verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Nepali
1 entries- श्वास तान्नु verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- henase girtin verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- inhalere verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- innånde verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- inhalera verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhalere verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Polish
4 entries- inhalować verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- wdychać verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- wdychać verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- wziewać verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Portuguese
3 entries- inalar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inalar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inspirar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Romanian
4 entries- aspira verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inhala verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhala verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inspira verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Russian
4 entries- вдохну́ть verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- вдохну́ть verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- вдыха́ть verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- вдыха́ть verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- udàhnuti verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- ùdisati verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- у̀дисати verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- уда̀хнути verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Slovak
4 entries- nadýchnuť sa verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- vdychovať verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- vdychovať verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- vdýchnuť verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Slovene
2 entries- vdihniti verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- vdihovati verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Spanish
4 entries- alentar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- aspirar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- inhalar verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- inhalar verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Swedish
1 entries- andas in verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Telugu
2 entries- ఉచ్ఛ్వాసించు verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- పీల్చు verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Thai
3 entries- ดม verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- สูด verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- หายใจเข้า verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вдиха́ти verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- вдихну́ти verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hít verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Welsh
3 entries- anadlu i mewn verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- anadlu i mewn (rhywbeth) verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- mewnanadlu verb (to draw air into the lungs)
White Hmong
1 entries- qus pa verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Zazaki
2 entries- nefes anten verb (to draw air into the lungs)
- nefes pıfen verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
Zhuang
2 entries- cup verb (to draw something into the nose or lungs)
- cup heiq verb (to draw air into the lungs)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The doctor told me to inhale and exhale slowly and deeply.
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Don't inhale directly from the bottle containing benzene.
Source: tatoeba (3276284)
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.