inhale
Plural: inhales
Verb
Verb Forms: inhaled, inhaling, inhales
- To breathe in; to draw air or gas into the lungs.
- draw deep into the lungs in by breathing
- "Clinton smoked marijuana but never inhaled"
- draw in (air)
- "Inhale deeply"
- "inhale the fresh mountain air"
- To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- To eat very quickly.
Noun
- An inhalation.
Examples
- Players often inhale sharply when seeing a great word they can play.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin inhalare (“to breathe on (breathe in)”), from in (“in, into, on”) + halare (“to breathe”).
Antonyms
exhale, breathe out, expire, outbreathe
Scrabble Score: 9
inhale: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinhale: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
inhale: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary