breathing
breathing is a 9-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Breathe. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- present participle. of Breathe
- noun. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
- noun. Air in gentle motion.
- noun. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.
- noun. Aspiration; secret prayer.
- noun. Exercising; promotion of respiration.
- noun. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
- noun. Breathing place; vent.
- noun. Stop; pause; delay.
- noun. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.
- noun. A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.
- noun. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
- adjective. passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination
"the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"
"the heavy-breathing person on the telephone"
Synonyms
respiration, ventilation, eupneic, eupnoeic
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in breathing:
Common word forms
breath, breathe, breathings, breathingly
Words from these letters
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