Definitions
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
Word origin
From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).
Used in a sentence
“The breath of heav'n fresh-blowing, pure and sweet, / With day-spring born; here leave me to respire.”
“Second Day.—Hold the breath five seconds. Respire, and hold the breath ten seconds. Respire, and hold the breath fifteen seconds.”
“All living things respire or breathe. To many of us this means that they take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Breathe in and out”7 letters
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