exhale
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ex·hale
(ĕks-hāl′, ĕk-sāl′)v. ex·haled, ex·hal·ing, ex·hales
v.intr.
1.
a. To breathe out.
b. To emit air or vapor.
2. To be given off or emitted.
v.tr.
1. To blow (something) forth or breathe (something) out.
2. To give off; emit: chimneys exhaling dense smoke.
[Middle English exalen, from Latin exhālāre : ex-, ex- + hālāre, to breathe.]
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exhale
(ɛksˈheɪl; ɪɡˈzeɪl)vb
1. (Physiology) to expel (breath, tobacco smoke, etc) from the lungs; breathe out
2. to give off (air, vapour, fumes, etc) or (of air, vapour, etc) to be given off; emanate
[C14: from Latin exhālāre to breathe out, from hālāre to breathe]
exˈhalable adj
ˌexhaˈlation n
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ex•hale
(ɛksˈheɪl, ɛkˈseɪl)v. -haled, -hal•ing. v.i.
1. to emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
2. to pass off as vapor; pass off as an effluence.
v.t. 3. to breathe out; emit (air, vapor, sound, etc.).
4. to give off as vapor.
5. to draw out as a vapor or effluence; evaporate.
[1350–1400; < Latin exhālāre=ex- ex-1 + hālāre to emit (vapor)]
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exhale
Past participle: exhaled
Gerund: exhaling
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| Verb | 1. |  exhale - expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"breathe, take a breath, suspire, respire - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" snort - make a snorting sound by exhaling hard; "The critic snorted contemptuously" blow - exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down" breathe in, inhale, inspire - draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well" |
| 2. | exhale - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke" |
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exhale
verb
1. breathe out, breathe, expel, blow out, respire Hold your breath for a moment and exhale.
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exhale
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Translations
زَفَر، نَفَثَ
ånde ud
ausatmenaushauchenexhalieren
kilehel
anda frá sér
iškvėpimasiškvėpti
izelpot
vydychovať
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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exhale
vi → ausatmen
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
exhale
(eksˈheil) verb to breathe out.
exhalation (eksəˈleiʃən) nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
ex·hale
v. espirar, exhalar.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
exhale
vt, vi exhalar, sacar aire (fam)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.