Definition of Respiring

1. Verb. (present participle of respire) ¹

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Definition of Respiring

1. respire [v] - See also: respire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiring

respiratory syncytial virus infections
respiratory syncytial viruses
respiratory system
respiratory system agents
respiratory systems
respiratory therapy
respiratory tract
respiratory tract fistula
respiratory tract infection
respiratory tracts
respiratory transport
respire
respired
respires
respiring (current term)
respiritualize
respiritualized
respiritualizes
respirocyte
respirocytes
respirologist
respirologists
respirometer
respirometers
respirometric
respirometries
respirometry
respit
respite

Literary usage of Respiring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1886)
"... rather announce the divinity of some temple than a mere object of sculpture displaying, as it is thought, the muscles of a man just respiring from toil. ..."

2. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"... auditory passages.2 Smells are conveyed to the olfactory organ by air and water : they are inhaled with the air by respiring animals ; to non-respiring ..."

3. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1862)
"... a Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the New Chambers for respiring Pulverised Mineral Water in the Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. ..."

4. The Effects of Lead Upon Healthy Individuals: Compiled and Arranged from 592 by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"respiring heavily (after five hours),107.— Respiration slow and-indolent ; expiration stertorous, on account of weakened power of the ..."

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