Dictionary Entry
respire
respire is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
- 2intransitive verb
To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.
- 3transitive verb
To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.
- 4transitive verb
To breathe out; to exhale.
- 5verb
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
"I can breathe better when the air is clean"
"The patient is respiring"
- 6verb
undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide
- 7verb
breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety
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