Putnam's Word Book by Louis A. Flemming
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breathable, a. respirable. Antonyms: irrespirable, unbreathable.
breathe, v. respire, inhale and exhale; infuse; wheeze, suspire, sigh, gasp, pant, aspirate; exhale, emit. breathing, n. respiration, inhalation (breathing in), exhalation (breathing out); aspiration, suspiration, sighing, panting, insufflation, gasp, wheeze, afflatus, inflation, pneuma; inspiration, theopneusty. Associated Words: eupnÅoe, dyspnÅoe, asthma, apnÅoe, cachon, respiratory, gill, branchia, pneumodynamics, pneometry, suffocation, stertorous. breathless, a. panting. breech, n. buttocks. breeches, n. pl. smallclothes, knickerbockers, knee-breeches; trousers, pants. breed, v. beget, generate, procreate, engender, conceive and bear; nurture, train; occasion, originate, engender. breed, n. race, variety, strain, extraction, family, lineage, pedigree; class, sort, kind, variety. breeding, n. generation, procreation, begetting, prolification; stirpiculture, eugenics; nurture, training. Associated Words: dysgenesis, dysgenesic, hybrid, hybridization, thremmatology. breeding freely. prolific. Antonym: unprolific. |
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