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unbreathed

[ uhn-breethd ]

adjective

  1. unbreathed air.

  2. not disclosed; uncommunicated, as a secret.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unbreathed1

First recorded in 1580–90; un- 1 + breathed

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Example Sentences

Such an unexpected echo of her own unbreathed words startled Althea like an electric shock.

Then Khoda Dad Khan, eloquent and unbreathed, for he had taken no part in the fight, rose to improve the occasion.

There is also the formless, unbreathed word of mood and dream and passion.

Above their heads the wind thrummed and whistled in the rigging, and the clean, unbreathed odour of the sea was salt and bracing.

His secret passion, unbreathed to any ear on earth, had been a prayer heard in heaven!

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