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Definitions: Exhale |
ExhaleVerb1. Expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight". 2. Give out, as of breath or an odor; "The chimney exhales a thick smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exhale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ExhaleSynonyms: breathe out (v), emanate (v), expire (v), give forth (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inhale (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Vaporization | Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exhale |
| English words defined with "exhale": Avolate ♦ blow ♦ cough ♦ Ex-, Exaled, Exaling ♦ Outbreathe ♦ puff, pulmonary reserve ♦ smoke, sneeze ♦ Upbreathe ♦ whiff. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "exhale": Upbreathe. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | My stomach turns and I exhale (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Exhale with Candice Bergen (2000) Waiting to Exhale (1995) | |
Song Titles | Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (performing artist: Whitney Houston) | |
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| Exhale; exhalation; exhaling; breathe; breath; outbreath; breathing; lungs; respire; respiration; air; airways; mouth. | Gorilla; primate; anger; angry; huff; exhale; fierce; ferocious. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When patients exhale through the flutter, a special valve causes rapid air pressure fluctuations in the patients' airways. (references) | |
In this test, the forced vital capacity maneuver, the patient is asked to inhale as deeply as possible, and on signal, exhale as completely and as rapidly as possible. (references) | ||
During the apneic event, the person is unable to breathe in oxygen and to exhale carbon dioxide, resulting in low levels of oxygen and increased levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Exhale" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Exhale" is used about 28 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 89.29% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
waiting to exhale | 109 | exhale nostril | 3 |
exhale soundtrack waiting | 45 | exhale song waiting | 3 |
exhale | 25 | exhale picture waiting | 3 |
exhale lyrics waiting | 17 | exhale yoga | 3 |
exhale lyrics soundtrack waiting | 13 | exhale party waiting | 2 |
exhale smoke | 6 | club exhale night | 2 |
exhale spa | 5 | count exhale waiting | 2 |
waiting to exhale movie | 5 | exhale fitness | 2 |
cast exhale waiting | 4 | exhale fetish nostril picture | 2 |
exhale nose | 3 | exhale houston waiting whitney | 2 |
club exhale | 3 | exhale horizon.com | 2 |
exhale script waiting | 3 | exhale houston lyrics whitney | 2 |
exhale inhale | 3 | exhale french | 2 |
exhale lyrics | 3 | ||
exhale french | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "exhale"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nxjerr frymë (expire), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زفر (breathe, expel, expire), إنبعث (emanate, emit, escape, issue, regenerate, waft), أطلق رائحة (send forth), أرسل زفرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), излъчвам (beam, discharge, eradiate, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, ooze, put out, radiate, reek, respire, scintillate, send out, shed, throw up), изпускам (elide, emit, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, ooze, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, shoot, throw out, utter, vent), изпарявам се (boil down, dry off, evaporate, fume, make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, mosey, ooze, scat, skedaddle, steam away, vanish into the void, vapor, vaporize, vapour, volatilize), изпарявам (boil down, evaporate, vaporize, volatilize), издишвам (breathe out, expire, undraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 虖 (scream of tiger, to call), " (hiss), 呼" (exhaled, exhaling, Expiratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypouštìt (give off, let out), vydechovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitademen, getuigen van, ademen (breathe, breathing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | elspiri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زفیرکردن , دم براوردن (Expire), بیرون دادن (Emission, Emit, Evolve, Ooze, Vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | huokua (breathe), hengittää ulos (breathe out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | exhaler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausatmen (breathe out, expire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναθυμιάζω (reek), αποπνέω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל שוף (blow, puff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lehel (to breathe), kibocsát (emit, give off, illuminate, launch, throw out, to deflate, to discharge, to emit, to evolve, to exhale, to give forth, to give off, to give out, to issue, to jet, to send forth, to send out, to throw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menghembuskan, menafaskan, melenguh (sigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | esalare (ascend, ascension, breathe out, rise, soar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 息'吐く (to breathe out, to exhale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いき'はく (to breathe out, to exhale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 내뿜으십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey magh ennal (exhalation, expiration, expire), gaalaghey (evaporate, evaporation, steam, vaporization, vaporize, volatilize), cur smoghan jeh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exhaleay expirar (die, expire, to expire, to fall due, to mature), exalar (breathe, die, expired, fling, transpire), soltar o ar, bafo (breath, impulse, incentive, patronage, protection, puff, waft, whiff), axalar. (various references) exala (emit, send out, spread), emana (discharge, emanate, emit, stream), se evapora (boil away, dry out, evaporate, fume, vapor, vaporize, vapour), da frâu liber mâniei, aburi (dim, fumigate, mist, smoke, steam, sweat). (various references) выдыхать (breathe, expire). (various references) izdisati (breathe out, transpire). (various references) respirar (breathe, breathe again, draw, respire, wheeze), exhalar (breathe out, extol, extoll, heave), espirar (breathe, breathe out, expire). (various references) utandas (expire). (various references) หายใจออก. (various references) yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), oh çekmek, nefes vermek (expire), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) випаровуватися (evaporate, vapor, vaporize, vapour), видихати (breathe out, expire). (various references) -khipha umoya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exhalare, exspirasset, exspiravit, spirabit, spirans, spirant, spirantem, spirantes, spirare, spirarent, spiraret, spirat. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "exhale": exhaled, exhalent, exhalents, exhales. (additional references) | |
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"Exhale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aghalee, Echave, Eeshal, Ehle, enhale, erhalte, Erhwald, ethile, Etxabe, Exall, exhail, exhal, Exhall, exhalt, exhi, exhile, Extabe, exual, Mehale, Nephele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exhale" (pronounced ekshā"l) |
| 3 | -h ā" l | hail, Hale, inhale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-x" | |
-2 letters: alee, axel, axle, hale, heal, heel. | |
-3 letters: ale, axe, eel, hae, hex, lax, lea, lee, lex. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, ax, eh, el, ex, ha, he, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-l-x" | |
+1 letter: exhaled, exhales. | |
+2 letters: exhalent. | |
+3 letters: exhalents. | |
+4 letters: anthelixes, cephalexin, exhilarate, exothermal. | |
+5 letters: cephalexins, cyclohexane, exhaustible, exhaustless, exhilarated, exhilarates, hexadecimal, hypersexual, phylloxerae. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 68 61 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .... .- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x h a l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0068 0061 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399074677871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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