Breath, breathing.

The faculty or action of breathing; respiration. Hence: existence, life.

Breath; (also) the act of breathing, respiration. rare after 18th cent.

Breathing, breath.

The action of inhaling and exhaling, esp. as a continuous physiological process; respiration. Also: an act or instance of breathing in and out; a…

A breathing, respiration.

Spirit or a spirit (in various senses of spirit, n.).

The action of taking air into the lungs (or water into the gills) and expelling it again, esp. as a continuous physiological process; breathing…

Breathing as a vital process; hence transferred life: = breath, n. 4. So to slip one's wind, to die. Obsolete except in low slang.

Breathing, blowing.

Breathing, breath.

A breathing; a blowing.

The action of breathing or drawing breath in man and animals. Obsolete.

(Deep) breathing; breath; a (deep) breath.

The action of breathing or drawing one's breath; a breath, sigh. technical. The drawing in of air in, or as in, breathing.

= respiration, n. Obsolete.

Natural or normal breathing; easy respiration.

Blowing or breathing.

the action of inhaling air or gas again (frequently attributive).

The supply of fresh air or oxygen to the lungs (or gills), by the process of breathing or artificially.