word | breath |
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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 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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