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Respire v. t.

To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe. "A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while."

To breathe out; to exhale. (R.)

Respire v. i. (past & past part. respired; pres. part. respiring)

To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. "Here leave me to respire." "From the mountains where I now respire."

(Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Respire" Quotes from Famous Books

... the mountains are covered with vegetation and warm with almost perpetual sunshine, and the direction of the wind is consequently reversed. This valley of the Viliga, therefore, may be regarded as a great natural breathing-hole, through which the interior steppes respire once a year. At no other point does the Stanavoi range afford an opening through which the air can pass back and forth between the steppes and the sea, and as a natural consequence this ravine is swept by one almost uninterrupted storm. While the weather everywhere ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... see, to address, and, more than all, to touch you, has been a rapture, what word can I find in the vocabulary of happiness to express the realisation of that hope which now burns within me—to mingle our youth together into one stream, wheresoever it flows; to respire the same breath; to be almost blent in the same existence; to grow, as it were, on one stem, and knit into a single life the feelings, the wishes, the being ...

— Falkland, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... he cried, casting up his eyes with an expression of half-dying fatigue, "are you not accabl? for my part, I hardly respire. I have really hardly ever had the honour of being so ...

— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... of the night and the morning My coursers are wont to respire, But the Earth has just whispered a warning That their flight must be swifter ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... struggle, the more complicated and firm becomes their entanglement. Lamentable as undoubtedly must be such a hopeless state of servitude, it still appears to them preferable to the precincts of a prison. They respire the free invigorating air of their plains, and can still traverse them at their option, or at least when the season arrives which closes their daily task. But this privilege, it must be confessed, is purchased at its uttermost value. We have philanthropists among us, who justly commiserate the ...

— Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land • William Charles Wentworth

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