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respire

[ ri-spahyuhr ]

verb (used without object)

respired, respiring.
  1. to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe.
  2. to breathe freely again, after anxiety, trouble, etc.


verb (used with object)

respired, respiring.
  1. to breathe; inhale and exhale.
  2. to exhale.

respire

/ °ùɪˈ²õ±è²¹ÉªÉ™ /

verb

  1. to inhale and exhale (air); breathe
  2. intr to undergo the process of respiration
  3. literary.
    to breathe again in a relaxed or easy manner, as after stress or exertion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è°ù±ðr±ð·²õ±è¾±°ù±ð verb (used with object) prerespired prerespiring
  • ³Ü²Ôr±ð·²õ±è¾±°ù±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of respire1

1375–1425; late Middle English respiren < Latin °ù±ð²õ±èÄ«°ùÄå°ù±ð, equivalent to re- re- + ²õ±èÄ«°ùÄå°ù±ð to breathe; spirit
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of respire1

C14: from Latin rÄ“²õ±èÄ«°ùÄå°ù±ð to exhale, from re- + ²õ±èÄ«°ùÄå°ù±ð to breathe; see spirit 1
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Example Sentences

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As oxygen from the environment combines with the sugars in patats, it gets respired from the roots as carbon dioxide and water.

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Tiny pores on a leaf’s underside are arranged to take in carbon dioxide and respire water, allowing the plant to transform sunlight into energy.

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That carbon feeds hordes of bacteria and fungi, which build some of it into more microbes while respiring the rest into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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Such assurance marked “Rainphase,†a 2015 essay by New’s countrywoman Salina Fisher, evoking the wet weather of Wellington, with slow-shifting orchestral hues interspersed with plucked, tapped precipitation and scraped and respired gusts of wind.

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“So our biosphere in the North is leakier than we thought because soils are remaining warm and respiring both carbon dioxide and methane.â€

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