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Definition: Breathed |
BreathedAdjective1. Having breath or breath as specified; usually used in combination; "sweet-breathed". 2. Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "breathed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: BreathedSynonym: voiceless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Breathed |
| English words defined with "breathed": Aether ♦ Breathable, breathe ♦ Carbonic acid ♦ exhaled ♦ inhaled ♦ last ♦ Outbreathe ♦ Respirable, Roric figures ♦ Spirable ♦ Unbreathed ♦ voiceless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "breathed": Bronchospirometry ♦ Maximal Voluntary Ventilation, maximum breathing capacity, maximum voluntary ventilation, MVV ♦ Potential Dose ♦ rescue apparatus ♦ sampling train, simple pneumoconiosis. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Looking for changes in the composition of air breathed by a patient on a treadmill] National Institutes of Health photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Berke Breathed | I know my limitations. I could never make it as a writer, and I could never make it as a fine artist. Thus the world of cartooning was waiting for me to come along. I have plenty of partial ability. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But the air was too fresh and chill to be long breathed with comfort |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It will be remembered that the very foundation of Javert, his element, the medium in which he breathed, was veneration for all authority |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They breathed behind him on his neck and sighed as they prayed |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She breathed heavily through her open mouth |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When fresh air is breathed in through the nose and mouth, it is pulled through the windpipe or trachea and into the lungs. (references) | |
A. Yes, when the other person has plague pneumonia and coughs droplets containing the plague bacteria into air that is breathed by a non-infected person. (references) | ||
Outbreaks of legionellosis have occurred after persons have breathed mists that come from a water source (e.g., air conditioning cooling towers, whirlpool spas, showers) contaminated with Legionella bacteria. (references) | ||
Economic History | Tanzania | Historically, the southern circuit has remained underdeveloped because of the lack of infrastructure; however, international donor financing of infrastructure rehabilitation projects has breathed new life in the Tanzanian government initiative to develop the circuit. (references) |
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| "Breathed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 91.24% of the time. "Breathed" is used about 821 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 91.24% | 749 | 9,103 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.39% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.36% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 821 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "breathed": breathed-upon. | |
Ending with "breathed": bad-breathed, god-breathed, Long-breathed, Short-breathed, smelly-breathed, sour-breathed, stale-breathed. | |
Containing "breathed": being-breathed-in-to. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
berke breathed | 18 |
berkeley breathed | 18 |
berkley breathed | 3 |
breathed god scripture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "breathed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 呼吸 (Breathe, Breathing, respiratory, respire, Respired, Respiring). (various references) | |
Danish | der er forskel mellem volumen af forbrugt luft ( aandedraetsvolumen ) og maengden af indaandet luft ( dybden af aandedraettet ) (there are differences in the volumes of air breathed ( minute volume ) and the tidal volumes ( depth of inspiration )). (various references) | |
Dutch | men vindt verschillen tussen het ingeademde luchtvolume ( volume per minuut ) en het ademhalingsvolume ( diepademhaling ) (there are differences in the volumes of air breathed ( minute volume ) and the tidal volumes ( depth of inspiration )). (various references) | |
French | respirés, respirée, respiré, respirâmes, respira. (various references) | |
German | geatmet, atmete (respired). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zöngétlen (hangzó). (various references) | |
Italian | esistona differenze per quanto riguarda i volumi dell'aria inspirata(volume al minuto)ed i volumi dell'aria corrente(profondit di inspirazione) (there are differences in the volumes of air breathed ( minute volume ) and the tidal volumes ( depth of inspiration )). (various references) | |
Korean | 호흡하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathedbray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | existem diferenças quanto quantidade de ar inspirada(volume por minuto)e quanto quantidade de ar corrente(profundidade da inspiração) (there are differences in the volumes of air breathed ( minute volume ) and the tidal volumes ( depth of inspiration )). (various references) | |
Spanish | Hay diferencias en cuanto a la cantidad de aire respirado (ventilación) y el volumen normal (profundidad de la inspiración). (there are differences in the volumes of air breathed ( minute volume ) and the tidal volumes ( depth of inspiration )). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 20, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai touto eipwn enefushsen kai legei autoiV labete pneuma agion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hoc cum dixisset insuflavit et dicit eis accipite Spiritum Sanctum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þa he þt cwæð; þa bleow he on hyo.& cwæð to heom. under-foð halgne gast. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Whanne he had seid this, he blewe on hem, and seide, Take ye the Hooli Goost; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And when he had sayde that he brethed on them and sayde vnto the: Receave ye holy goost. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith to them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you: |
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| Language | John Chapter 20, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakasulti na siya niini, gihuypan niya sila sa iyang gininhawa ug miingon kanila, "Dawata ninyo ang Espiritu Santo. |
| Croatian | To rekavši, dahne u njih i kaže im: "Primite Duha Svetoga. |
| Danish | Og da han havde sagt dette, åndede han på dem, og han siger til dem: "Modtager den Helligånd! |
| Dutch | En als Hij dit gezegd had, blies Hij op hen, en zeide tot hen: Ontvangt den Heiligen Geest. |
| Finnish | Ja tämän sanottuaan hän puhalsi heidän päällensä ja sanoi heille: "Ottakaa Pyhä Henki. |
| French | Après ces paroles, il souffla sur eux, et leur dit: Recevez le Saint Esprit. |
| German | Und da er das gesagt hatte, blies er sie an und spricht zu ihnen: Nehmet hin den Heiligen Geist! |
| Hungarian | És mikor ezt mondta, rájuk lehelle, és monda nékik: Vegyetek Szent Lelket: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Ia meniupkan napas-Nya kepada mereka dan berkata, "Terimalah Roh Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah sudah diucapkan-Nya yang demikian, lalu dihembus-Nya kepada mereka itu sambil bersabda kepada mereka itu, "Terimalah olehmu Rohulkudus. |
| Maori | Ka korerotia tenei e ia, ka whakaha ia, ka mea ki a ratou, Kia riro te Wairua Tapu i a koutou: |
| Norwegian | Og da han hadde sagt dette, åndet han på dem og sa til dem: Ta imot den Hellige Ånd! |
| Portuguese | E havendo dito isso, assoprou sobre eles, e disse-lhes: Recebei o Espírito Santo. |
| Rumanian | Dupq aceste vorbe, a suflat peste ei, wi le -a zis: ,,Luayi Duh Sfknt! |
| Russian | уЛБЪБЧ ЬФП, "ХОХМ, Й ЗПЧПТЙФ ЙН: ТЙНЙФЕ дХИБ уЧСФБЗП. |
| Shuar | Nuyá ni matsatmanumaani Umpuí Tímiayi "Yusa Shiir Wakaní Atumí Enentáin wayati. |
| Swahili | Alipokwisha sema hayo, akawapulizia na kuwaambia, "Pokeeni Roho Mtakatifu. |
| Swedish | Och när han hade sagt detta, andades han på dem och sade till dem: "Tagen emot helig ande! |
| Uma | Oti toe, natuwui' -ramo hante inoha' -na pai' na'uli': "Doa-mokoi Inoha' Tomoroli'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "breathed": inbreathed. (additional references) | |
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"Breathed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: branaghed, breated, breathen, Bretfeld, Breuhat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "breathed" (pronounced brē"thd) |
| 3 | -ē" th d | sheathed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: berated, berthed, breadth, breathe, debater, earthed, hearted, rebated, tabered. | |
-2 letters: adhere, aether, bathed, bather, beater, behead, berate, bertha, breath, dearth, debate, derate, hatred, header, heated, heater, herbed, hereat, rebate, redate, reheat, teared, thread. | |
-3 letters: ardeb, arete, barde, bared, bated, bathe, beard, beret, berth, bread, brede, breed, dater, death, debar, derat, deter, eared, earth. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: blathered. | |
+2 letters: bighearted, broadsheet, featherbed, hibernated, inbreathed, threadbare, timberhead, whitebeard. | |
+3 letters: breadthwise, broadsheets, featherbeds, reinhabited, timberheads, whitebeards. | |
+4 letters: bigheartedly, rehydratable, weatherboard. | |
+5 letters: brokenhearted, butyraldehyde, featherbedded, reestablished, rehabilitated, weatherboards. | |
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