respiratev.
/ˈrɛspᵻreɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛspəˌreɪt/ 1. intransitive. To breathe; = respire v. 1a.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > breathe [verb (intransitive)]
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breathea1398
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blowc1440
queasea1500
suspire1600
respirate1668
rake1793
1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) x. iii. 134 The Pox hath not sufficient Moisture to dilate, nor a sufficient natural Vapour to breath, or respirate.
1847 O. Winslow Personal Declension 115 Does it not seem like pleading with a man to live?—reminding him that he must respirate if he would maintain life?
1889 D. Macintyre Hindu-Koh 359 My sleep had not been either of the soundest or most comfortable kind, from my being unable to respirate freely in a recumbent position at such a height.
1920 M. Paterson Shibboleths Tuberculosis xxxii. 136 The children would only then, in theory, get absoutely unbreathed air because all of them would now respirate together.
2002 P. Ramsey Patient as Person (ed. 2) ii. 67 He made the determination that the boy was dead (because of the massive brain injury and his failure to restore the boy's ability to respirate) while his heart was still ‘spontaneously’ beating.
2. transitive. Chiefly Biology and Medicine. To ventilate (in various senses); (in later use) esp. to administer artificial respiration to. Also: to take in (a substance) through the lungs or gills.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > others
animalize1790
sterilize1891
ultrafilter1908
enucleate1909
homogenize1936
harvest1946
superfuse1953
bursectomize1958
perifuse1969
respirate1971
transfect1974
1766 Art of Knowing Mankind 135 Liberty respirates the soul in the same manner, as air does the body.
1846 Fortunes & Adventures Raby Rattler 250 I perceived that the instrument [sc. a bassoon] was the very one which he had been wont to respirate his youthful lungs within his youthful home.
1883 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 3 779 They [sc. the six pairs of feet of a cladoceran] are kept in constant motion, and thus serve both to respirate the blood and to bring food to the mouth.
1891 J. MacVine Sixty-three Years' Angling 198 The fish must respirate those poisons when they are carried into the river.
1916 Detroit Med. Jrnl. 16 354/1 If it was possible..to respirate the air cells in the alveolar region of the lungs with fresh air at the rate of some eighteen times per minute.
1971 Nature 28 May 263/2 Trackers were cannulated and the animals were respirated artificially with a Harvard respirator.
2002 N.Y. Mag. 25 Feb. 39/3 He had to be manually respirated with an oxygen bag throughout the 90-minute operation.
3. intransitive. Biology = respire v. 3a.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [verb (intransitive)] > processes
respire1894
respirate1975
1975 Water Res. 9 1182/1 The bacteria respirate..until a relatively high KCN-concentration is reached.
1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Apr. (BNC) 126 The plants will respirate during the hours of darkness, giving off carbon dioxide and absorbing oxygen.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 644/1 This turtle is able to remain under water for long periods because it can respirate through a network of blood vessels in its cloaca.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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