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Inhale

verb

(past & past part. inhaled; pres. part. inhaling)

Draw deep into the lungs in by breathing.

Draw in (air). Synonyms: breathe in, inspire. "Inhale the fresh mountain air" , "The patient has trouble inspiring" , "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"

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"Inhale" Quotes from Famous Books

... down rapidly. He noticed there was only a quarter moon and realized that the darkness had been a part of "Red Mike's" nefarious plotting. He turned to Brennan, whose tensely set face was lighted for a fraction of a second by the accelerated burning of his cigarette as he took a deep inhale. ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... Marie was so impatient that she could not keep still, but continued going to the window, as if she wished to inhale all the air of the vast, expanse and the immense sky. Ah! what a pleasure to be able to run about the streets, across the squares, to go everywhere as far as she might wish. And to show how strong she was, to have the pride ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... continuance of sundry noxious trades in London for thirty years, and then they are to be carried on under certain restrictions. It cannot be said that this is selfish legislation: the present generation may inhale its fill of gas and vitriol; but our grandchildren will imbibe "under certain restrictions" only that quantity which is requisite to balance the pleasures of a city life. At Lyons there is a long line of huge stumps of trees bordering ...

— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps

... my personal death?— That lungs be failing To inhale the breath Others are exhaling? This my subtle spirit's end?— Ah, when the thawed winter splashes Over these chance dust and ashes, Weep ...

— Second April • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... such places where people congregate, as in rooms, barracks, factories, etc. As it is a fact that there are always several consumptives among a number of people, so in this case there will always be occasion to inhale the tubercle-bacilli that have been cast out by the consumptives. Therefore it is not the foul air in itself which generates pulmonary consumption, but the circumstance that in this connection there ...

— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum

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