Breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.

Undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.

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

synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath.

Roget 689: brace etc. (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up, refresh, recruit; repair etc. (restore) 660; fan, refocillate^†; refresh the inner man.    breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength etc. 159; perk up, get one's second wind.    come to oneself etc. (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.    ... show more

Roget 359: be alive etc. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist etc. (exist) 1; walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared.    see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.    give birth to etc. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate^†; reanimate etc. (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.    hive nine lives like a cat.    ... show more

Roget 349: blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane etc. n.; wuther^†; stream, issue.    respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.    fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate^†; blow up.    ... show more

Dutch: inademen, respireren, asemen, ademhalen, ademen