Exhale (disambiguation)
WordNet
verb
(1) Expel air
"Exhale when you lift the weight"
(2) Give out (breath or an odor)
"The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
WiktionaryText
Verb
- To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
- 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray 2009, p. 9:
- Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.
- 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray 2009, p. 9:
- To expel (something) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.