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Exhale   /ɛkshˈeɪl/   Listen
verb
Exhale  v. t.  (past & past part. exaled; pres. part. exaling)  
1.
To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. "Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales."
2.
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.


Exhale  v. i.  To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. "Their inspiration exhaled in elegies."





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"Exhale" Quotes from Famous Books



... sacred or tabooed and are therefore permanently forbidden to touch the ground with their feet, there are others who enjoy the character of sanctity or taboo only on certain occasions, and to whom accordingly the prohibition in question only applies at the definite seasons during which they exhale the odour of sanctity. Thus among the Kayans or Bahaus of Central Borneo, while the priestesses are engaged in the performance of certain rites they may not step on the ground, and boards are laid for them to tread on. Warriors, again, on the war-path are surrounded, so to say, by an atmosphere ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... clouds they stood, With which Jove crowns the tops of hills in any quiet day When Boreas, and the ruder winds that use to drive away Air's dusky vapors, being loose, in many a whistling gale, Are pleasingly bound up and calm, and not a breath exhale."] ...
— The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century - Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February - 4th and 11th, 1884 • John Ruskin
... yet the gathering of flowers will go on. And, after all, what more can a blossom desire than to 'exist beautifully' and exhale its sweetness, whether it lies hidden by the wayside hedge, or decks the bosom of a woman as sweet and ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams
... of the deep-throated Rhine. Many of "the long, long thoughts" of youth,—those thoughts that ring like happy bells or sweep like rushing rivers, kept him company as he laid these delicate strokes and washes that seem to exhale the very breath of morning across ...
— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue
... moments, lush with bliss, Exhale and fade away, Life may renew the Autumn time, But nevermore ...
— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson


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