exhale

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈheɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

exhale (third-person singular simple present exhales, present participle exhaling, simple past and past participle exhaled)

1. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
2. (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
3. (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
   • 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray, published 2009, page 9:

     Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.

4. (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).

   The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

   • 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 29:

     Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales.

5. (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.

   The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

• (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
• (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)

• (antonym(s) of “expel (transitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inhale
• (antonym(s) of “breathe out (intransitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inspire

• exhalation

• inhalation
• inhale
• inhaler

exhale (plural exhales)

1. An exhalation.
   • 2009, David A. Clark, Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice:

     Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.

• “exhale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “exhale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “exhale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

exhale

1. inflection of exhaler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

exhale

1. inflection of exhalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

exhale

1. inflection of exhalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative