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Synonyms for breathing
ˈbri ðɪŋbreath·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
breathing
Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the words "he is all alive," "thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying "having life," is now mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or "breathing and sounding, beauteous battle,"
Tennyson Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.Synonyms:
active, alert, alive, animate, animated, brisk, existent, existing, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivaciousAntonyms:
dead, deceased, defunct, dispirited, dull, inanimate, lifeless, spiritlessPreposition:
Alive in every nerve; alive to every noble impulse; alive with fervor, hope, resolve; alive through all his being.
Princeton's WordNet
breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilationadjective
the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
Synonyms:
ventilation, internal respiration, respiration, ventilating system, ventilation system, airing, external respiration, public discussion, cellular respirationAntonyms:
breathless, suffocative, dyspnoeal, smothering, winded, short-winded, suffocating, dyspneic, pursy, dyspneal, blown, dyspnoeic, asphyxiatingbreathing, eupneic, eupnoeicadjective
passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination
"the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone"
Antonyms:
winded, dyspneic, dyspneal, breathless, dyspnoeal, suffocating, smothering, suffocative, dyspnoeic, asphyxiating, pursy, short-winded, blown
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
breathingnoun
Synonyms:
respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out), aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma, inspiration, theopneustyAssociated words:
eupnœoe, dyspnœoe, asthma, apnœoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "breathing":
respiration, breathe, respiratory, breath, inhalation, respirable, respirator
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#461 | live | |
#742 | living | |
#934 | quick | |
#954 | active | |
#1390 | existing | |
#2450 | alert | |
#4337 | alive | |
#5288 | animated | |
#6080 | breath | |
#7491 | respiratory | |
#8195 | breathing | |
#10709 | ventilation | |
#11701 | breathe | |
#12285 | lively | |
#18279 | inhalation | |
#21867 | existent | |
#23205 | respiration | |
#26982 | animate | |
#27447 | airing | |
#30505 | brisk | |
#30548 | respirator | |
#72873 | vivacious | |
#86297 | subsisting | |
#86846 | respirable |
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We come here every year. We live in New Jersey. The crowds keep getting less, but my wife and I, as long as we're breathing, we'll be here, no remains were ever found, so basically this is his cemetery.
Compared with the Autumn, when I was voting for an increase in Bank Rate, the fall in oil prices has certainly provided some unexpected breathing space. It is, however, at present no more than that.
I get calls for beds every day. But where are the beds? Our in-charge of a primary healthcare centre died last night in a private nursing home as we couldn’t find him a bed in a proper hospital, just oxygen won’t help, we need ICUs (intensive care units) and ventilators. Just breathing has become difficult here.
We are frequently faced with that misrepresentation or that warrior savage imagery that our ancestors were killed for, generally, we are represented as artifacts, people that aren't really real... but we are very much still a part of our tribal communities. We are living, breathing, evolving people just like any other group of people and we'd like to be recognized as that.
I was sitting in a wheelchair in hospital having muscle convulsions being told that my kidneys had shut down, it was terrifying to have someone tell you we’re going to have to stop you breathing to keep you alive.
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