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respire
Found in thesaurus: breathe, suspire, take a breath, respire, have, experience, get, receive, undergo
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respire
v.
breathe, inhale and exhale
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Respiration
Respiration may refer to:
Biology
- Cellular respiration, the process in which nutrients are converted into useful energy in a cell
- Anaerobic respiration, cellular respiration without oxygen
- Maintenance respiration, the amount of cellular respiration required for an organism to maintain itself in a constant state
- Respiration (physiology), transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide between cells and the external environment
- Respiratory system, the anatomical system of an organism used for respiration
- Breathing, passing air through respiratory organs
- Aquatic respiration, animals extracting oxygen from water
- Artificial respiration, the act of simulating respiration, which provides for the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration and internal respiration
- Cheyne–Stokes respiration, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea
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respire
Verb
1. breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety
(hypernym) breathe, take a breath, suspire
(verb-group) breathe, take a breath, suspire
2. undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbonmonoxide
(hypernym) experience, receive, have, get, undergo
(verb-group) breathe, take a breath, suspire
(derivation) breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
3. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
(synonym) breathe, take a breath, suspire
(entail) inhale, inspire, breathe in
(derivation) breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation
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respirer
v.
breathe, respire; inhale, inbreathe; smell
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respirar
v.
respire, breathe, inhale and exhale
