Definition of exhale Exhale

/ɛkshejˈl/ - [eksheyl] - ex•hale

We found 12 definitions of exhale from 6 different sources.

What does exhale mean?

Verb exhales, exhaling, exhaled
exhale - expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight"
		expire, breathe out
		breathe in, inhale, inspire draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"
		take a breath, suspire, respire, breathe undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide
		snort make a snorting sound by exhaling hard; "The critic snorted contemptuously"
		blow exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down"
exhale - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
		give forth, emanate
		emit, pass off, breathe expel (gases or odors)

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exhale (Verb)
To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
exhale (Verb)
To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
exhale (Verb)
To expel something from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.

exhale (v. t.)
To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
exhale (v. t.)
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sum exhales the moisture of the earth.
exhale (v. i.)
To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

exhale
egz-hāl′, v.t. to emit or send out as vapour: to evaporate.—v.i. to rise or be given off as vapour.—adjs. Exhal′able, that can be exhaled; Exhal′ant, having the quality of exhaling.—n. Exhalā′tion, act or process of exhaling: evaporation: that which is exhaled: vapour: steam. [Fr. exhaler—L. exhalāre—ex, out, halāre, -ātum, to breathe.]
exhale
egz-hāl′, v.t. to draw out: (Shak.) to cause to flow. [Pfx. ex-, and hale, to draw.]

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exhale in sign language