Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw (air or smoke, for example) into the lungs by breathing; inspire.
- v. Informal To consume rapidly or eagerly; devour: inhaled lunch and then rushed off to the meeting.
- v. To breathe in; inspire.
- v. To draw smoke into the lungs; puff.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draw in, as air into the lungs; draw in by breathing, or by some analogous process.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- v. transitive To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- v. transitive, figuratively To eat very quickly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; ; -- opposed to exhale.
WordNet 3.0
- v. draw deep into the lungs in by breathing
- v. draw in (air)
Etymologies
- From Latin inhalare ("to breathe on (breathe in)"), from in ("in, into, on") + halare ("to breathe"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin inhālāre, to breathe upon (meaning influenced by contrast with exhale) : in-, in; see in-2 + hālāre, to breathe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I figure any day I can still wake up and inhale is a win.”
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations
“To say you didn’t inhale is to declare yourself to have been the clueless Mr. Jones in Dylan’s famous song and expecting to get credit for it!”
“(Although Bill says he didn't inhale, which is pure bullsheet!)”
“What they are saying, telling us at this point is this that there -- this is inhalational anthrax, something you actually inhale, which is the more rare of the three -- the three being: cutaneous, going right through the skin, GI, something that you'd actually swallow, or inhalational, as the case is here.”
“The planet where Bill Clinton didn't "inhale" or the one where George W. Bush didn't (allegedly) snort coke off the ass of a Mexican hooker?”
Hillary Campaign Official Says GOP Will Target Obama For Drug Use
“And rather than be a man and admit it, he said whether or not he took drugs depended on the word "inhale".”
“To be fair to Mansbridge and Klein, both quintessentially Canadian, they probably did mean it in the "inhale" sense, as Stephanie said above, and Kim reinforced.”
“Next you'll tell me you didn't "inhale" when she offered you a doobie.”
From penetrating the world of prostitution to penetrating the prostitute.
“If you're doing it completely for yourself to kind of inhale your own ego, you're not a great comedian.”
“Le Whif: the calorie-free aerosol that lets you 'inhale' a cup of coffee without the cup”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inhale’.
-
LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
-
breathing
suffocate, hypoventilation, apnea, suffocation, asphyxiation, hypoxia, anoxia, inhale, breathe, respire, pulmonary reserve, exhale and 54 more...
-
Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
-
SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
-
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
-
fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
-
Fire & Life
eloquent, sumptuous, opulent, ripple, beautiful, ballet, music, Europa, ethereal, precious, sunset, inhale and 17 more...
-
uberWENSCH's Words
glisten, uxorious, staccato, mellifluous, eminence grise, cuckold, brilliantine, stave, elan, porte cochere, donjon, ars and 61 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inhale.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.