Translation
to breathe
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Examples
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It is hard to breathe in such heat.
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He breathed deeply and entered the room.
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The sick child was barely breathing.
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We breathe the fresh sea air.
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She stopped breathing for one terrible moment.
The prefixes give you the whole set without new vocabulary: to breathe in, to breathe out, i to draw a sudden breath, and for a breath as a countable thing. Senspira is breathless.
One thing not to merge: , meaning spirit or mind, is a separate word with a separate entry in the list. They look like relatives and behave like strangers. Also note that can take a direct object when you say what is being breathed, as in , though the bare intransitive use is far commoner.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 2: spiri, gasto, leono and 6 more words.