the act of a person or other animal that breathes; respiration.

a single breath.

the short time required for a single breath.

a pause, as for breath.

utterance or words.

a gentle moving or blowing, as of wind.

Classical Greek Grammar .

the manner of articulating the beginning of a word written with an initial vowel sign, with or without aspiration before the vowel.

one of the two symbols used to indicate this. Compare rough breathing , smooth breathing .

adjective

breathless , dead , deceased , lifeless

adjective

inhaling , gasping , panting , wheezing , respiratory , living , animate , conscious , functioning , awake , alive , respiration