LekhoriLekhoriTo breathe in and out successively.
To take up oxygen and produce carbon dioxide (as animals do), or vice versa (as plants do).
All living things respire or breathe. To many of us this means that they take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide.
To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
It is my opinion, that these animals, while they continue in the state of larvae, respire water and not air; and that they inspire the water, not by the mask, but by their posterior part, through which also they discharge it.
Rest, respite.
He cast to suffer him no more respire, But gan his sturdie sterne about to weld, And him so strongly stroke, that to the ground him feld.
From Middle English respiren, borrowed from Old French respirer or Latin respīrō (“to blow back, breathe out”), from re- (“back”) + spīrō (“to breathe, blow”).
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