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Meanings of respire in English

Portuguese
espirar
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alenar
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aspirar

Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.

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        Usage of respire in English
        1
        They respire, merely as a vestigial reflex, but they don't oxygenate anymore.
        The strain
        2
        He laughed, and seemed to respire more air into his broad chest.
        Cinq Mars — Volume 3
        3
        The moment after I began to respire twenty quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide.
        A History of Science — Volume 4
        4
        This enables the lungs to respire non-synchronously with the heart.
        Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
        5
        When a spontaneous effort to respire is observed, proceed to induce Circulation and Warmth.
        Papers on Health
        6
        The root, pith, lobes, plume, calyx, coral, sap, blood, leaves respire and absorb light.
        The Botanic Garden / A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of...
        7
        Its breathings were difficult, and every effort to respire produced a convulsion harder than the last.
        Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
        8
        By this time he could scarcely respire.
        The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
        9
        Now that, not my apology, but my defence is made, I feel my soul respire more easily.
        The Letters of Robert Burns
        10
        I can no more.-Ifonce I was clear of this cursed farm, I should respire more at ease.
        The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
        11
        After this long dripping and oozing from every pore, she began to respire again more healthily than ever.
        A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
        12
        With what eagerness did I run every morning at sunrise to respire the perfumed air in the peristyle!
        The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10
        13
        Hepatocytes from hypothyroid rats respire more slowly than those from control animals; cells from hyperthyroid rats respire faster.
        Pubmed
        14
        People are beginning to respire freely again; and such another space of time would have cicatrized our wounds-when ,hark
        The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
        15
        Many children sneeze before they respire, but not all, as far as I have observed, or can learn from others.
        Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
        16
        George could scarcely respire for a moment, but gradually recovered sufficiently to mumble, Gents, this is one on yours truly.
        Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1
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        Portuguese
        espirarrespirar
        Respire through the time