respire

[re·spire]

To respire is to breathe in and out. After a calf is born, a farmer might watch it respire for a while to make sure it's okay.

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To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

Verb
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"

Verb
undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbonmonoxide

Verb
breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety


v. i.
To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

v. i.
To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.

v. t.
To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.

v. t.
To breathe out; to exhale.


Respire

Re*spire" (r?*sp?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Respired (-sp?rd"); p. pr. & vvb. n. Respiring.] [L. respirare, respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F. respirer. See Spirit.] 1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser.
Here leave me to respire.
From the mountains where I now respire.
2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.

Respire

Re*spire", v. t. 1. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.
A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while.
2. To breathe out; to exhale. [R.] B. Jonson.

To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.

To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.

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