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BREATHING SPELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does breathing spell mean?
• BREATHING SPELL (noun)
The noun BREATHING SPELL has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BREATHING SPELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short respite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
breath; breather; breathing place; breathing space; breathing spell; breathing time
Hypernyms ("breathing spell" is a kind of...):
relief; respite; rest; rest period (a pause for relaxation)
Context examples
In the breathing spell of the vacation he had taken, he had spent many hours in self-analysis, and thereby learned much of himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." (Aboriginal Australian proverbs)
"Ask thy purse what thou should'st buy." (Arabic proverb)
"Bathe her and then look at her." (Egyptian proverb)