exhale
See also: exhalé
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]exhale (third-person singular simple present exhales, present participle exhaling, simple past and past participle exhaled)
- (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
- (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
- (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
- 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray, published 2009, page 9:
- Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.
- 2025 July 9, Oliver Wheeler, “Action stations...”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 68:
- Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.
- (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).
- The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
- 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 29:
- Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales.
- (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.
- The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
Synonyms
[edit]- (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
- (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “expel (transitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inhale
- (antonym(s) of “breathe out (intransitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inspire
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to breathe out
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to expel from the lungs
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to emit vapour, odour, etc.
to cause to be emitted in vapour
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Noun
[edit]exhale (plural exhales)
- An exhalation.
- 2009, David A. Clark, Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice:
- Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.
Further reading
[edit]- “exhale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exhale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “exhale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
[edit]Verb
[edit]exhale
- inflection of exhaler:
Portuguese
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[edit]exhale
- inflection of exhalar:
Spanish
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[edit]exhale
- inflection of exhalar:
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