1 to say something very quietly:
"Here they come," he breathed.
2 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.
For example, planning breathing between phrases systematically and marking this on the music generally increased their sense of control.
It is just as useless to breathe only with your belly as it is to breathe only with your chest.
This pattern was often accentuated whilst breathing out between phrases, when the process needed to be quick, or whilst trying to play quietly.
