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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
breathed
    adj 1: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed
           plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed,
           voiceless]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Breathe \Breathe\ (br[=e][th]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Breathed
   (br[=e][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing.] [From Breath.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I
      am in health, I breathe." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            Breathes there a man with soul so dead
            Who never to himself hath said,
            This is my own, my native land!       --Sir W. Scott
                                                  [The Lay of
                                                  the Last
                                                  Minstrel].
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   2. To take breath; to rest from action.
      [1913 Webster]

            Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to
      emanate; to blow gently.
      [1913 Webster]

            The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
                                                  --Byron.
      [1913 Webster]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
breathed \breathed\ (br[e^]tht), adj.
   having breath or breath as specified; usually used in
   combination; as, sweet-breathed.
   [WordNet 1.5]
4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
breathed \breathed\ (br[=e][th]d), adj.
   uttered without voice.

   Syn: voiceless.
        [WordNet 1.5]
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