verb
- Breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.
- Undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.
- Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.
- usage: "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
- synonyms: breathe, take a breath, suspire
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