take a breath 'draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs' breathe 'draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs' suspire 'draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs' respire 'draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs'
exhale 'COD: breathe out.' puff 'COD: breathe in repeated short gasps' gasp 'COD: catch one's breath with an open mouth, owing to pain or astonishment. strain to obtain (air) by gasping. ' breathe 'COD: take air into the lungs and then expel it as a regular physiological process. ' huff 'COD: blow out noisily.' inhale 'COD: breathe in.' respire 'COD: breathe'
I can breathe better when the air is clean The patient is respiring
Examples from VerbNet
The dragon breathed fire on Mary. Paul breathed. Paul breathed on Mary. Paul breathed a deep breath. The dragon breathed fire.
Examples from SemCor
Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best_seller book to make some dough. Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley. We can all breathe more easily this morning- more easily and joyously, too- because Joshua_Logan has turned the stage show,`` Fanny'', into a delightful and heart-warming film. For fifty-five years he had lived, progressing towards a no-goal, eating, working, breathing without plan, without reason. `` We can breathe out there, all_right. From behind, he had put his arms on her shoulders, turned her around, and pressed her to him, so close she could breathe. I promised to illustrate the lecture, if they so_much as breathed till after the call was completed. He breathed now with his mouth open, showing a whitely curving section of teeth; he kept his eyes, with their puffed blurred lids, always lowered, though not, apparently, focusing. Such a twist would be a tragedy for the Dominican people, who deserve to breathe without_fear. They were both breathing heavily, out_cold, and Shayne did n't think either of them had recognized him or could describe him. He was shouting and breathing hard and closing his fist on the pillow. But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed, brushed, and taking_breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so_to_speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value. `` I'm General_Burnside 's horse, upside_down'', Arlene said, sort_of, for her: even she had to breathe kind_of when she was in that position. Usually the patient breathes into a mouthpiece while walking a treadmill, standing_still, or in some other medically significant position. He broke_into a dogtrot, breathing heavily, streaming with sweat. Calling the Democrats the`` party that lives, breathes and thinks for the good of the people'', Hughes asked,`` a representative Democratic vote in the primary for a springboard toward victory in November''. Shell people did not, strictly_speaking, breathe. I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said,`` I admit that going back to Ralph_Waldo_Emerson for humor is like going_to a modern musical_comedy for music and comedy''. I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model`` a beautiful shade of red and_then had her breathe on the canvas'', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity. she breathed.