Breathing

Definition

breathe /bri:ð/ v ၁။ အသက္႐ႉသည္။ breathing deeply ❍ People breathe more slowly when they are asleep. ❍ She's still breathing (ie still alive). ❍ He was breathing hard/heavily after his exertions. ❍ It's good to breathe (in) fresh country air instead of city smoke. ❍ When the danger had passed we all breathed a sigh of relief. အႏၲရာယ္ေတြ လြန္ေျမာက္သြားတဲ့အခါ အားလံုး ဟင္းခနဲ သက္ျပင္းခ်မိၾကတယ္။ ၂။ ~ in/out အသက္ျပင္းျပင္း ႐ႉသြင္း သည္၊ ထုတ္သည္။ The doctor told me to breathe in and then breathe out (again) slowly. ၃။ တိုးတိုးညင္သာေျပာ သည္။ breathe loving words in sb's ear ❍ breathe a threat ❍ ‘Goodbye darling,’she breathed. ၄။ စိတ္ခံစားမႈ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ အျပည့္အဝရိွေနေၾကာင္း ျပသသည္၊ ေပၚလြင္ေန သည္။ The team breathed confidence before the match. ၅။ (ဝိုင္၊ ပစၥည္းစသည္) ေလသလပ္ခံသည္။ It's best to allow red wine to breathe before you drink it. ❏ (be able to)breathe (easily/freely) again [ IDM ] ခုမွပဲ အသက္႐ႉေခ်ာင္ေတာ့တယ္။ Now my debts are paid I can breathe again. ❏ breathe down sb's neck [ IDM ] ( infml ) တေကာက္ ေကာက္လိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ မ်က္လံုးေဒါက္ေထာက္ၾကည့္သည္။ I can't concentrate with you breathing down my neck. ❏ breathing n [U] အသက္႐ႉ။ heavy breathing ❍ breathing apparatus ❍ deep breathing exercises. ❏ breathing-space n [C, U] အသက္႐ႉေပါက္။ နားခ်ိန္။ The summer break gave us a welcome breathing-space. ❏ breathe sth into sb/sth [ PHRV ] စိတ္ဓာတ္တက္ႂကြ ေအာင္ လုပ္ေပးသည္။ The new manager has breathed fresh life into the company (ie given it new energy and enthusiasm). ❏ breathe one's last [ IDM ] ( fml euph ) အသက္ ကုန္သည္။ ❏ (not) breathe a word (of/about sth) (to sb) [ IDM ] ေလသံေတာင္မဟ။ ေယာင္လို႔ေတာင္မဟ။ Promise me you won't breathe a word of this to anyone.

Examples

1. He held her so tightly she could hardly breathe.
2. We can no longer have confidence in the quality of the air we breathe.
3. Doctors said he was having difficulty breathing.
4. [breathe deeply/hard/heavily] : She leant against the door
5. breathing deeply.
6. I don’t want to breathe other people’s smoke.
7. [breathe on] : She breathed on her glasses then polished them on her shirt.