Breathed

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /bɹiːðd/

Definitions

1. The process of exhaling air after inhaling, which can also reflect a transmission of emotions or thoughts through that breath
2. The action of expelling air from the lungs, serving dual purposes of a biological function and the expression of inner feelings or ideas
3. The act of releasing air from the lungs, which serves both a vital physiological function and a means of conveying personal sentiments or thoughts

Etymology: "Breathed" is the past tense and past participle of "breathe", so its story is really the story of the verb. "Breathe" descends from Middle English "brethen", which was formed from the noun "breath" (Old English "bræth", meaning vapour or breath), and the "-ed" ending simply marks the past. The word therefore carries no hidden sense of its own: it reports the completed act of drawing in or letting out air, just as the noun it grew from described the air itself.

Synonyms: exhaled, inhaled