资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Breathe \Breathe\, v. t.
   1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to
      respire.

            To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital
            air.                                  --Dryden.

   2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.

            Able to breathe life into a stone.    --Shak.

            And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
            ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
            life.                                 --Gen. ii. 7.

   3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to
      whisper; as, to breathe a vow.

            He softly breathed thy name.          --Dryden.

            Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse, A
            mother's curse, on her revolting son. --Shak.

   4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe
      odors or perfumes.

   5. To express; to manifest; to give forth.

            Others articles breathe the same severe spirit.
                                                  --Milner.

   6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing.
      ``They breathe the flute.'' --Prior.

   7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise.

            And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast
            created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.
                                                  --Shak.

   8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural
      breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.

            A moment breathed his panting steed.  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   9. To put out of breath; to exhaust.

            Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little
            breathed by the journey up.           --Dickens.

   10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal
       consonants.

             The same sound may be pronounces either breathed,
             voiced, or whispered.                --H. Sweet.

             Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain
             unchanged

   Note: [in whispering].                         --H. Sweet.

   {To breathe again}, to take breath; to feel a sense of
      relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of
      business.

   {To breathe one's last}, to die; to expire.

   {To breathe a vein}, to open a vein; to let blood. --Dryden.