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exhale

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • \eks-ˈhāl, ek-ˈsāl\
    • /eksˈheɪl/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \eks-ˈhāl, ek-ˈsāl\

Definitions of exhale word

  • noun exhale Breathe out in a deliberate manner. 1
  • verb exhale When you exhale, you breathe out the air that is in your lungs. 0
  • verb exhale to expel (breath, tobacco smoke, etc) from the lungs; breathe out 0
  • verb exhale to give off (air, vapour, fumes, etc) or (of air, vapour, etc) to be given off; emanate 0
  • intransitive verb exhale to breathe out 0
  • intransitive verb exhale to be given off or rise into the air as vapor; evaporate 0

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Parts of speech for Exhale

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

exhale popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

exhale usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for exhale

verb exhale

  • blow out — If you blow out a flame or a candle, you blow at it so that it stops burning.
  • respire — to inhale and exhale air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathe.
  • breathe — When people or animals breathe, they take air into their lungs and let it out again. When they breathe smoke or a particular kind of air, they take it into their lungs and let it out again as they breathe.
  • emit — Produce and discharge (something, esp. gas or radiation).
  • give off — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.

Antonyms for exhale

verb exhale

  • inhale — to breathe in; draw in by breathing: to inhale the polluted air.
  • hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • take in — the act of taking.

Top questions with exhale

  • wheeze when exhale?
  • how do you inhale and exhale?
  • what happens when you exhale?
  • what do we exhale?
  • what do humans exhale?
  • where does the carbon dioxide you exhale come from?
  • what does exhale mean?
  • what do you exhale?
  • wheeze when i exhale?
  • when we exhale we breathe this plus carbon dioxide?
  • what gas do we exhale?
  • bubbling in lungs when exhale?
  • what causes wheezing when you exhale?
  • how to exhale?
  • what does it mean when you wheeze when you exhale?

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