Synonyms for breathing
ˈbri ðɪŋbreath·ing

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1. breathing

   Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the words "he is all alive," "thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying "having life," is now mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or "breathing and sounding, beauteous battle," Tennyson Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.

   Synonyms:
   active, alert, alive, animate, animated, brisk, existent, existing, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivacious

   Antonyms:
   dead, deceased, defunct, dispirited, dull, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless

   Preposition:
   Alive in every nerve; alive to every noble impulse; alive with fervor, hope, resolve; alive through all his being.

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1. breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilationadjective

   the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

   Synonyms:
   ventilation, internal respiration, respiration, ventilating system, ventilation system, airing, external respiration, public discussion, cellular respiration

   Antonyms:
   breathless, suffocative, dyspnoeal, smothering, winded, short-winded, suffocating, dyspneic, pursy, dyspneal, blown, dyspnoeic, asphyxiating

2. breathing, eupneic, eupnoeicadjective

   passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination

   "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone"

   Synonyms:
   eupnoeic, eupneic

   Antonyms:
   winded, dyspneic, dyspneal, breathless, dyspnoeal, suffocating, smothering, suffocative, dyspnoeic, asphyxiating, pursy, short-winded, blown

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1. breathingnoun

   Synonyms:
   respiration

2. breathingnoun

   Synonyms:
   aspiration, wish, desire, longing, craving, yearning

3. breathingadjective

   Synonyms:
   living, alive, live, not dead

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1. breathingnoun

   Synonyms:
   respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out), aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma, inspiration, theopneusty

   Associated words:
   eupnœoe, dyspnœoe, asthma, apnœoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous

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1. List of paraphrases for "breathing":

   respiration, breathe, respiratory, breath, inhalation, respirable, respirator

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1. Amerie Jo Garza:

   One little girl was just covered in blood head to toe. I thought she was injured, I asked her what was wrong. She said she was OK -- she was hysterical, saying that they shot her best friend, that they killed her best friend, she was not breathing.

2. Clive Savacool:

   It’s finally a chance to take a breath, it’s a breath full of smoke. Nonetheless, I think we’re all breathing a little bit easier and we feel like we’re making some progress.

3. Mike Baele:

   The market is probably breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief knowing that inflation even a bit above 2 percent may not necessarily mean a faster rate of increases.

4. Cristovao Barcelos:

   There's a sequence that starts with deforestation, then comes fires and breathing problems.

5. Javier Cazares:

   It'd be different if she had cancer or something, getting to know that one day she might pass, but this was a way she was really taken from us. That’s a different story, and it hurts harder, but we're strong, and we're trying to get through it. And this is going to be very hard, and I can't say we're going to stop breathing. We can’t. But our baby's gone.