different between breathe vs inblow

English

Etymology

From Middle English brethen (“to breathe, blow, exhale, odour”), derived from Middle English breth (“breath”). Eclipsed Middle English ethien and orðiæn, from Old English ?þian and orþian (“to breathe”); as well as Middle English anden, onden, from Old Norse anda (“to breathe”). More at breath.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: br?th, IPA^(key): /b?i?ð/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?ið/
• Rhymes: -i?ð

Verb

breathe (third-person singular simple present breathes, present participle breathing, simple past and past participle breathed)

1. (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
2. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.

3. (transitive) To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To live.
   • Breathes there a man with soul so dead?

5. (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.

6. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.

7. (transitive) To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
   • 2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures (?ISBN), page 85:

     Mountain Drakes breathe fire, Ice Drakes breathe ice, Swamp Drakes breathe acid, and Forest Drakes breathe lightning.

8. (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.

9. (transitive) To whisper quietly.

10. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
11. (chiefly Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity, with God as agent) To inspire (scripture).
    • 1850, John Howard Hinton, On the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures. A lecture, etc, page 16:

      The affirmation before us, then, will be, "All scripture is divinely breathed."

    • 1917, J. C. Ferdinand Pittman, Bible Truths Illustrated: For the Use of Preachers, Teachers, Bible-school, Christian Endeavor, Temperance and Other Christian Workers, page 168:

      […] that God, who breathed the Scriptures, "cannot lie," […]

    • 2010, Jay E. Adams, The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling, Zondervan (?ISBN)

      Paul says that since God breathed the Scriptures, they are therefore useful; he did not put it the other way around (i.e., that they are useful, therefore inspired).

12. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.

13. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
    • Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!

14. (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.

15. (transitive) To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
16. (transitive, figuratively) To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to draw air in and out): see Thesaurus:breathe
• (to be passionate about): live and breathe

Derived terms

Related terms

• breath

Translations

Anagrams

• beareth, beheart, herb tea

English

Etymology

From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inbl?wan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- +? blow.

Verb

inblow (third-person singular simple present inblows, present participle inblowing, simple past inblew, past participle inblown)

1. (transitive) To blow into; puff up; inflate.
2. (transitive) To breathe into; inspire.
   • 1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God:

     Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of taw??d, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...

3. (intransitive) To blow in.

Noun

inblow (plural inblows)

1. The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
   • 1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 109:

     During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.

   • 1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419:

     Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.

2. That which is blown in.

Anagrams

• Bowlin, Wilbon, blow-in, blowin'