Associations to the word «Respire»

Wiktionary

RESPIRE, verb. (intransitive) To breathe in and out.
RESPIRE, verb. (intransitive) To engage in the process of respiration.
RESPIRE, verb. (intransitive) To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
RESPIRE, verb. (transitive) To inhale and exhale; to breathe.
RESPIRE, noun. (obsolete) Rest, respite.

Dictionary definition

RESPIRE, verb. Breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.
RESPIRE, verb. Undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.
RESPIRE, verb. Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope