breathe

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To inhale and exhale air, especially when naturally and freely.
2. v. To be alive; live: A nicer person has never breathed.
3. v. To pause to rest or regain breath: Give me a moment to breathe.
4. v. To move or blow gently, as air.
5. v. To allow air to pass through: a natural fabric that breathes.
6. v. To be exhaled or emanated, as a fragrance.
7. v. To be manifested or suggested, as an idea or feeling: A sense of calm breathed from the landscape.
8. v. To reach fullness of flavor and aroma through exposure to air. Used chiefly of wine.
9. v. To require air in the combustion process. Used of an internal-combustion engine.
10. v. To inhale and exhale (air, for example) during respiration.
11. v. To inhale (an aroma, for example): breathe the lush scent of lilacs.
12. v. To impart as if by breathing; instill: an artist who knows how to breathe life into a portrait.
13. v. To exhale (something); emit.
14. v. To utter, especially quietly: Don't breathe a word of this.
15. v. To make apparent or manifest; suggest: Their manner breathed self-satisfaction.
16. v. To allow (a person or animal) to rest or regain breath.
17. v. Linguistics To utter with a voiceless exhalation of air.
18. v. To draw in (air) for the combustion process. Used of an internal-combustion engine.
19. idiom. breathe down (someone's) neck To threaten by proximity, especially by pursuing closely.
20. idiom. breathe down (someone's) neck To watch or monitor closely, often annoyingly: The boss was breathing down my neck all morning.
21. idiom. easily To be relaxed or relieved, especially after a period of tension.
22. idiom. breathe (one's) last To die.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To draw air into and expel it from the lungs; respire; figuratively, to live.
2. To make a single respiration.
3. To take breath; rest from action.
4. To pass, as air; blow: as, “when winds breathe sweet,”
5. To give utterance to disparaging or calumnious remarks; make insinuations: with upon.
6. To exhale, as an odor; emanate.
7. Figuratively, of inanimate things, to be instinct; be alive.
8. To inhale and exhale in respiration: as, to breathe vitiated air.
9. To inject by breathing; infuse: with into: as, “to breathe life into a stone,”
10. To exhale; send out as breath; express; manifest.
11. To exercise; keep in breath.
12. To inspire or blow into; cause to sound by breathing.
13. To utter; speak; whisper.
14. To suffer to rest or recover breath.
15. To open and bleed (a vein).

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To repeatedly draw air into, and expel it from, the lungs in order to extract oxygen from it and excrete waste products.
2. v. intransitive To exchange gases with the environment.
3. v. intransitive To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
4. v. intransitive Figuratively, to be relaxed or calm.
5. v. intransitive Figuratively, to live.
6. v. transitive To repeatedly draw (something) into, and expel (that thing) from, the lungs.
7. v. transitive To whisper quietly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
2. v. To take breath; to rest from action.
3. v. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.
4. v. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.
5. v. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.
6. v. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper.
7. v. To exhale; to emit, as breath.
8. v. To express; to manifest; to give forth.
9. v. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.
10. v. To promote free respiration in; to exercise.
11. v. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest.
12. v. To put out of breath; to exhaust.
13. v. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. impart as if by breathing
2. v. expel (gases or odors)
3. v. allow the passage of air through
4. v. utter or tell
5. v. reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked
6. v. be alive
7. v. manifest or evince
8. v. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
9. v. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs