Verb

• S: (v) respire (breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety)
• S: (v) respire (undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide)
• verb group
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) breathe, take a breath, respire, suspire (draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs) "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"