BREATHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathed mean? 

• BREATHED (adjective)
  The adjective BREATHED has 1 sense:

1. uttered without voice

  Familiarity information: BREATHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uttered without voice

Synonyms:

breathed; voiceless

Context example:

voiceless whispers

Similar:

inaudible; unhearable (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)

 Context examples 

Then her eyes closed, and she breathed heavily.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was just the faintest wind from the westward; but it breathed its last by the time we managed to get to leeward of the last lee boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

'The philosopher of the half-educated,' he was called by an academic Philosopher who was not worthy to pollute the atmosphere he breathed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So changed was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him; and the express messengers breathed with relief when they bundled him off the train at Seattle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If he breathed, certainly he never spoke.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Aren't they beautiful?" the girl asked, as she breathed in the spicy scent of the bright flowers.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Remember that I have breathed thirty miles of Surrey air this morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Until this morning I have never breathed one word to my wife upon this matter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oxygen that is breathed in enters the blood from the lungs and travels to the tissues.

(Oxygen, NCI Dictionary)

Carbon dioxide, a waste product made by the body’s tissues, is carried to the lungs, where it is breathed out.

(Lung function, NCI Dictionary)