breathe

respirer

Faire entrer de l’air dans son corps, puis le rejeter.

En anglais simple : To take air into your body and let it out again.

• Breathe slowly and relax.
• He breathed deeply before speaking.
• Can you breathe through your nose?

Comment l'utiliser : breathe through something (Try to breathe through your nose.); breathe on something (Breathe on the glass and wipe it clean.)

Synonymes : respire

Expressions courantes : breathe deeply, breathe in, breathe out

respirer, inhaler

Faire entrer un gaz précis dans son corps pour rester en vie.

En anglais simple : To take a particular gas into your body in order to stay alive.

• Humans need to breathe oxygen.
• The diver breathed air from a tank.
• Can these animals breathe the same gases as humans?

Synonymes : inhale

Contraires : exhale

Expressions courantes : breathe air, breathe oxygen, breathe pure oxygen

respirer

Absorber les gaz nécessaires à la vie et rejeter les gaz inutiles, par exemple au moyen de branchies.

En anglais simple : To take in the gases needed to live and release waste gases, as animals do through gills.

• Fish can breathe underwater.
• Some frogs breathe through their skin.
• How do insects breathe?

Comment l'utiliser : breathe through something (Fish breathe through their gills.)

Synonymes : respire

Expressions courantes : breathe underwater, breathe through gills, breathe through skin