exhale

See also: exhalé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French exhaler, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈheɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Verb

1. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
2. (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
3. (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
   • 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray 2009, p. 9:

     Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.

4. (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).

   The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales.

5. (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.

   The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

Synonyms

• (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
• (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)

Antonyms

• (expel (transitive)): inbreathe, breathe in, inhale
• (breathe out (intransitive)): inbreathe, breathe in, inspire

Derived terms

• exhalation

Related terms

• inhalation
• inhale
• inhaler

Translations

to breathe out

• Assamese: নিশাহ লোৱা (nixah lüa)
• Bulgarian: издишвам (izdišvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼出 (zh) (hūchū)

• Danish: ånde ud
• Dutch: uitademen (nl)
• Finnish: hengittää ulos
• French: expirer (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ausatmen (de)
• Greek: εκπνέω (el) (ekpnéo)

  Ancient: ἐκπνέω (ekpnéō)

• Hebrew: נָשַׁף (he) (nasháf)
• Irish: asanálaigh, easanálaigh
• Italian: esalare (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: exhālō
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• Maori: whakahā, puha
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: puste ut
• Portuguese: exalar (pt), expirar (pt)
• Quechua: samay
• Romanian: expira (ro)
• Russian: выдыха́ть (ru) impf (vydyxátʹ), вы́дохнуть (ru) pf (výdoxnutʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: sèid
• Slovak: vydýchnuť, vydychovať, dýchnuť
• Spanish: espirar (es), exhalar (es)
• Swedish: andas ut (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠖꠝ ꠙꠣꠟꠣꠘꠤ (dom falani)
• Telugu: నిశ్వాసించు (niśvāsiñcu)
• Thai: หายใจออก (hǎai-jai-ɔ̀ɔk)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

to expel from the lungs

• Finnish: hengittää ulos
• Irish: asanálaigh
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• Slovak: vydýchnuť, vydychovať

to pass off in the form of vapour

• Finnish: huokua
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to emit vapour, odour, etc.

• Finnish: huokua
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: uvoľňovať

to cause to be emitted in vapour

• Finnish: haihduttaa
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Noun

exhale (plural exhales)

1. 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

• “exhale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “exhale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “exhale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Verb

exhale

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhaler
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhaler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhaler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhaler
5. second-person singular imperative of exhaler

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Portuguese

Verb

exhale

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Spanish

Verb

exhale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhalar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhalar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhalar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhalar.