unbreathed

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ breathed.

Adjective

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unbreathed (not comparable)

  1. Not having been breathed.
    • 1865, Henry MacCormac, Consumption, as Engendered by Rebreathed Air and Consequent Arrest of the Unconsumed Carbonaceous Waste, Its Prevention and Possible Cure:
      The little wedge or quoin inserted on each side to prevent the descent of the sash, viewing it as an impediment to the introduction of unbreathed air, has proved the most lethal instrument of human destruction in the whole world.
    • 1899, Richard Warwick Bond, Zenobia: A Drama in Four Acts:
      Sir, we left / The legions chafing at Byzantium / As frets an unbreathed horse against the curb.