Inhale

Quick meaning: Inhale is a verb meaning (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

Meaning

(intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.
2. An inhalation.
3. (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in the form of aerosols/smoke, sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.

Example Sentences

[…] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated.

Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.

She had also forgotten both diet and protocol as she joined Sven in guzzling large cokes, practically inhaling fries and gravy, and rounding off the meal with double malts.

“Please. I’m starved.” Her gaze followed the man with the meatpies while she inhaled deeply, trying to hold onto the heavenly scent. […] “I find myself ravenous for meatpie.”

Word Forms

• inhales
• inhaling
• inhaled

Synonyms for inhale

Depending on context, synonyms include inbreathe, inspire, fetch.

Antonyms for inhale

Common opposites include exhale, outbreathe, expire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breathe, breath, respire, snort, swallow, suction.

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