Exhale

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To breathe out.
  • verb-intransitive. To emit air or vapor.
  • verb-intransitive. To be given off or emitted.
  • v. To blow (something) forth or breathe (something) out.
  • v. To give off; emit: chimneys exhaling dense smoke.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
  • v. To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
  • v. To expel (something) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate
  • v. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To send out as breath or as if by breathing; emit an effluence of; give out as vapor, either perceptible or imperceptible: as, marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
  • To draw out as an effluence; cause to be sent out or emitted in vapor; evaporate: as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
  • To draw forth; cause to flow, as blood.
  • To rise or pass off as an effluence; go off in vapor.
  • To hale or drag out.
  • To draw, as a sword.
  • To pass through in the form of drops; ooze: noting especially bleeding from a surface in the absence of any wound.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give out (breath or an odor)
  • v. expel air
  • Antonym
    inhale   
    Verb Form
    exhaled    exhales    exhaling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit    breathe    pass off   
    Form
    exaled    exaling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    evaporate    breathe    expire    exsufflate    spout    puff    blowy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inhale    disinfection    exhalation    respire    cesspit    sterilizer    collarbone    atomizer    coccyx    atomization