breathing in

Questions about breathing in

What does breathing in mean?

breathing in means "the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing".

What is another word for breathing in?

Close synonyms include inhalation, inspiration, aspiration, intake. 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 breathing in a common word?

breathing in is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.