exhale
Plural: exhales
Verb
Verb Forms: exhaled, exhaling, exhales
- To breathe out or emit air or vapor.
- expel air
- "Exhale when you lift the weight"
- give out (breath or an odor)
- "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
- To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
- To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
- To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
- To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).
- To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.
Noun
- An exhalation.
Examples
- After finally finding a seven-letter word, she could exhale, relieved the pressure was off.
- The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
- The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).
Synonyms
breathe out, emanate, expire, give forth, outbreathe
Scrabble Score: 16
exhale: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexhale: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
exhale: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary