breathed

See also: Breathed

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Middle English breethder.

Middle English brethen

English breathe

English -ed

English breathed

From breathe + -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːðd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːðd

Verb

breathed

1. simple past and past participle of breathe

Etymology 2

From breath + -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɛθt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛθt

Adjective

breathed (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a specified kind of breath.
   • 1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter III, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 103:

     A less matter would hold a well-breathed minstrel in subject for recitation for a calendar month, Sundays and holydays included.

   • 2005, Atlanta Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 26:

     She was so mad you'd have thought she'd been propositioned by a bad-breathed lobbyist in a broken-elevator encounter at City Hall.

2. (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) voiceless, contrasting with voiced

Derived terms

• shortbreathed

Anagrams

• rebathed