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Breath Wind Air Breathe Bad Noun Mouth Smells

word breath
definition
noun
Your breath is the air that you let out through your mouth when you breathe . If someone has bad breath, their breath smells unpleasant .
I could smell the whisky on his breath.
Smoking causes bad breath.
When you take a breath, you breathe in once.
He took a deep breath, and began to climb the stairs.
Gasping for breath, she leaned against the door.
He spoke for one and a half hours and barely paused for breath.
If you say that there is not a breath of wind or air, you are emphasizing that there is no wind and the air is very still .
Not even a breath of wind stirred the pine branches.
A breath of something, is a small amount of it.
It was left to Martina to add a breath of common sense to the proceedings.
inflections breaths
cefr-level B1

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