exhale

Other forms of exhale

past tense

exhaled·

present participle

exhaling·

third person

exhales·

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 exhale

What does exhale mean?

exhale means "expel air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exhale?

exhale has 2 syllables: e-xhale. The stress falls on "xhale". In IPA it is /ɛksˈheɪl/.

What is another word for exhale?

Close synonyms include expire, breathe out, give forth, emanate. 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.

What is the opposite of exhale?

The recorded antonyms are inhale.

Is exhale a common word?

exhale is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with exhale?

3 words rhyme with exhale. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.