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breathful

adjective 7
noun 4
forms 4

adjective7

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Full of breath, produced by the breath; breathy.
- He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful. — 1938
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Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.
- Individual wind instruments do not get obscured during the interplay of the tutti orchestra. Each section appears in naturally airy, breathful, resonant relief. — 1994
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Focused on control of one's breathing.
- The breathful twist on timing also adds a touch of novelty and a bit of distraction when facing more difficult topics. — 1990
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That breathes; alive.
- They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear: — 1932
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Not breathless; breathing easily.
- The end result of the Princeton experiment was that a startled but breathful Rutgers team downed a hell-raising breathless Princeton squad, 6-4. — 1977
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Relaxed and quiet.
- After the noon-blaze, in the breathful eve, The many 'folk of holiday ' come out ; And lovers saunter on the pier, and leave The gossip of their friends, to walk about — 1874
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(no longer used) Full of odour; fragrant.
- Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill. — 1591

noun4

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That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.
- Once you've swirled, close your eyes and take a good breathful of the wine. — 1999
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A quantity that is inhaled in one breath.
- Approximately I/5 of the oxygen in each breathful of air is absorbed by the body. — 1943
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A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.
- A fifteen-month gap separates the recording of the "The First Part" from "The Third Part," but the music could just as easily be two bubbles blown from the same fish on the same breathful of water. — 2003
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The amount spoken on one breath.
- The arbitrary time limit measured by breathsful of talk not only protects the pair or group from flooding but can also comfort the nervous disclosure by providing a limited demand. — 1990

forms

breathfuls · breathsful · more breathful · most breathful

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