to draw a breath

  • 71take a long breath — See: DRAW A LONG BREATH …

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  • 72take a breath — v. breathe, respire, draw air into the lungs and expel it out of the lungs …

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  • 73take a breath — verb draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs (Freq. 3) I can breathe better when the air is clean The patient is respiring • Syn: ↑breathe, ↑respire, ↑suspire • See Also: ↑ …

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  • 74breathe — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To draw breath] Syn. respire, use one s lungs, inhale, exhale, draw in, breathe in or out, gasp, pant, wheeze, snort, sigh, take air into one s lungs or nostrils, scent, sniff, smell, huff, puff, sniffle. 2. [To live] Syn.… …

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  • 75Life — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Life >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 life life vitality viability Sgm: N 1 animation animation Sgm: N 1 vital spark vital spark vital flame soul spirit GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 …

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  • 76Jesse Kilmartin — (played by Forbes March) is a character on the television show Mutant X .BiographyJesse Kilmartin is the son of manipulative covert operative Noah Kilmartin. Both his wealthy father and his grandfather William had won medals for their military… …

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  • 77Coup de glotte — or shock of the glottis is a term used in the theory of singing technique to describe a particular method of emitting or opening a note by an abrupt physical mechanism of the glottis (the space between the vocal folds). During the 19th century… …

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  • 78inhale — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. breathe (in). See wind. Ant., exhale. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. breathe in, gasp, smell, sniff; see breathe 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. breathe, draw a breath, gasp, inspire, sniff. IV (Roget… …

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  • 79snuffle — snuffler, n. snufflingly, adv. snuffly, adj. /snuf euhl/, v., snuffled, snuffling, n. v.i. 1. to draw air into the nose for the purpose of smelling something; snuff. 2. to draw the breath or mucus through the nostrils in an audible or noisy… …

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  • 80inspire — SYN: inhale. * * * increasing participation in cardiac rehabilitation; Intravascular Ultrasound Study Predictor of Restenosis * * * in·spire in spī(ə)r vb, in·spired; in·spir·ing vt to draw in by breathing: breathe in: INHALE <the volume of… …

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