breathe

Other forms of breathe

past tense

breathed·

present participle

breathing·

third person

breathes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breathe

What does breathe mean?

breathe means "draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breathe?

breathe has 1 syllable: breathe. In IPA it is /ˈbɹið/.

What is another word for breathe?

Close synonyms include take a breath, respire, suspire, rest, catch one's breath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breathe a common word?

breathe is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.