Exhale

[ɪks'heɪl;eks-] or [ɛks'hel]

Definition

(verb.) expel air; 'Exhale when you lift the weight'.

(verb.) give out (breath or an odor); 'The chimney exhales a thick smoke'.

Checked by Candy--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

(v. t.) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.

(v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

Typist: Ruth

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Emit, evaporate, breathe, emit in vapor, throw off in effluvia.

v. n. Fly off, pass off, be evaporated, be exhaled.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Emit, give_out, breathe_out, evaporate

ANT:Inhale, breathe_in, Inspire, contain

Checker: Sandra

Definition

v.t. to draw out: (Shak.) to cause to flow.

v.t. to emit or send out as vapour: to evaporate.—v.i. to rise or be given off as vapour.—adjs. Exhal′able that can be exhaled; Exhal′ant having the quality of exhaling.—n. Exhalā′tion act or process of exhaling: evaporation: that which is exhaled: vapour: steam.

Edited by ELLA