0 past simple and past participle of breathe
2 to say something very quietly:
"Here they come," he breathed.
3 If you allow wine to breathe, you open the bottle for a short time before you drink from it, in order to improve the wine's flavour.
The atmosphere in the room was so stuffy I could hardly breathe.
The firefighters wore respirators to help them breathe in the smoke-filled house.
The doctors are doing all that they can, but she's still not breathing properly.
This was an exciting development that breathed new life into the field.
The mist was gone and the orchestral music breathed on, sonorous and ethereal, crashing on the metallic cymbals.
They had their origin in the external air that the body breathed.
