respire
英[rɪ'spaɪə]
美[rɪ'spaɪɚ]
英英释意
- 1. breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety
- 2. undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbonmonoxide
- 3. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs;
- "I can breathe better when the air is clean"
- "The patient is respiring"