inhale

Other forms of inhale

past tense

inhaled·

present participle

inhaling·

third person

inhales·

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 inhale

What does inhale mean?

inhale means "draw deep into the lungs in by breathing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inhale?

inhale has 2 syllables: i-nhale. The stress falls on "nhale". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈheɪl/.

What is another word for inhale?

Close synonyms include inspire, breathe in. 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 inhale?

The recorded antonyms are exhale.

Is inhale a common word?

inhale 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 inhale?

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