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breathe
verb as in take air in and let out
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Somewhere under all that, there’s a real person—a living, breathing human woman.
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“Some turtles can breathe through their bottoms,” he informs us.
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The answers will surprise and delight, none more so than the fact that some microbes essentially “breathe” rocks.
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"And when you took all that out, you could hear people breathe in the audience," he says.
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Wall Street, meanwhile, breathed a massive sigh of relief.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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