inhale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

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 the 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

/ɪnˈheɪl/ en-us-inhale.ogg

inhale inhales inhaling inhaled

From Latin inhalare (“to breathe on (breathe in)”), from in (“in, into, on”) + halare (“to breathe”).

breathe in inbreathe inspire fetch

exhale breathe out outbreathe expire

inhaler halitosis

French inhale inhalable inhalation misinhale outhale uninhaled snap inhale

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on I Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary