take a breath

Questions about take a breath

What does take a breath mean?

take a breath means "draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs".

What is another word for take a breath?

Close synonyms include breathe, respire, suspire. 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 take a breath a common word?

take a breath 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.