exhale
to emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
to pass off as vapor; pass off as an effluence.
to breathe out; emit (air, vapor, sound, etc.): to exhale a sigh.
to give off as vapor: The engine exhaled steam.
to draw out as a vapor or effluence; evaporate.
Origin of exhale
1Other words from exhale
- un·ex·haled, adjective
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How to use exhale in a sentence
Other methane is exhaled by microscopic organisms directly, as in the human gut.
TB, for example, is spread when I inhale the exhaled breath of a person with active disease.
He then took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and said, “Call the first witness.”
Iraqi Insurgents Circulate the Lie That They Killed the Judge in Saddam’s Trial | Michael Newton | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe flowers and grass exhaled a fragrance which troubled me.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe parents exhaled in relief, but then there came another text.
Saussure made similar experiments, and observed that the quantity of water exhaled by a sunflower amounted to about 220 lb.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonPaterson buried his wife in that soil which, as he had assured his too credulous countrymen, exhaled health and vigour.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThen there came a dish of tripe, which exhaled a smell of onions, and which Madame Caravan made up her mind to taste.
Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete | Guy de MaupassantThis he dropped into some molten lead, but it was nearly all exhaled in smoke, and the residue was simply of a vitreous character.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport AdamsThe fetid odor exhaled from the corpse caused a pestilence involving thousands of deaths.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 | Hubert Howe Bancroft
British Dictionary definitions for exhale
/ (ɛksˈheɪl, ɪɡˈzeɪl) /
to expel (breath, tobacco smoke, etc) from the lungs; breathe out
to give off (air, vapour, fumes, etc) or (of air, vapour, etc) to be given off; emanate
Origin of exhale
1Derived forms of exhale
- exhalable, adjective
- exhalation, noun
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