BREATHING IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breathing in mean? 

• BREATHING IN (noun)
  The noun BREATHING IN has 1 sense:

1. the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

  Familiarity information: BREATHING IN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREATHING IN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aspiration; breathing in; inhalation; inspiration; intake

Hypernyms ("breathing in" is a kind of...):

breath (the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breathing in"):

gasp; pant (a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open)

drag; puff; pull (a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke))

Holonyms ("breathing in" is a part of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

 Context examples 

Breathing in dust or other particles in the air is responsible for some types of interstitial lung diseases.

(Interstitial Lung Diseases, NIH)

Taking ambient air into the lungs; breathing in.

(Inspiration, NCI Thesaurus)

CLD may be caused by smoking tobacco or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, dust, or other forms of air pollution.

(CLD, NCI Dictionary)

Chronic lung disease may be caused by smoking tobacco or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, dust, or other forms of air pollution.

(Chronic lung disease, NCI Dictionary)

You usually get it by breathing in mist from water that contains the bacteria.

(Legionnaires' Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Lung disorders may be caused by infection, by smoking tobacco, or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, radon, asbestos, or other forms of air pollution.

(Lung disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Three dead men lay huddled together in front of them: while a fourth, with the blood squirting from a severed vessel, lay back with updrawn knees, breathing in wheezy gasps.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing in patients by use of a powered device that forces oxygenated air into the lungs.

(Mechanical Ventilation, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also be caused by smoking tobacco or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke over a long period of time.

(Chronic cough, NCI Dictionary)

Breathing in other fumes and dusts over a long period of time may also cause chronic bronchitis.

(Chronic Bronchitis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)