单词 | exhale |
释义 | exhale (once / 1560 pages) v When you breathe, you inhale and exhale. In other words, you breathe in and out. When you breathe out, you exhale. If you exhale on a cold winter day, your breath looks like smoke in the frigid air. Yoga classes, with their emphasis on breathing, involve a lot of inhaling and exhaling. When you exhale, your lungs push air out, reducing the carbon dioxide in your body and making room for you to inhale oxygen. The Latin root exhalare combines ex, "out," and halare, "breathe." WORD FAMILYexhale: exhalation, exhaled, exhales, exhaling+/exhalation: exhalations USAGE EXAMPLESExhale deeply, then inhale while depressing the handle of the machine, filling your lungs with nitrous oxide instead of oxygen. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) It was — and I found this shocking because socializing is usually stressful for me — an exhale moment. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) It was Glenn’s own voice, a short time later, that allowed the world to exhale. Wall Street Journal(Dec 09, 2016) 1v expel air Exhale when you lift the weight Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper breathe out, expire breathe in, inhale, inspire draw in (air) snort make a snorting sound by exhaling hard blowexhale hard gasp, heave, pant, puffbreathe noisily, as when one is exhausted chuff, huff, puffblow hard and loudly insufflateblow or breathe hard on or into breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs 2v give out (breath or an odor) The chimney exhales a thick smoke Syn|Hyper emanate, give forth breathe, emit, pass off expel (gases or odors) |
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