exhale

/ˈɛksheɪl/

/ˈɛksheɪl/

Other forms: exhaled; exhaling; exhales

When you breathe, you inhale and exhale. In other words, you breathe in and out. When you breathe out, you exhale.

If you exhale on a cold winter day, your breath looks like smoke in the frigid air. Yoga classes, with their emphasis on breathing, involve a lot of inhaling and exhaling. When you exhale, your lungs push air out, reducing the carbon dioxide in your body and making room for you to inhale oxygen. The Latin root exhalare combines ex, "out," and halare, "breathe."

Definitions of exhale

1. verb

   expel air
   “Exhale when you lift the weight”

   synonyms: breathe out, expire

   antonyms:

   inhale

   draw in (air)

   types:

   snort

   make a snorting sound by exhaling hard

   blow

   exhale hard

   gasp, heave, pant, puff

   breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

   chuff, huff, puff

   blow hard and loudly

   insufflate

   blow or breathe hard on or into

   type of:

   breathe, respire, suspire, take a breath

   draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
2. verb

   give out (breath or an odor)
   “The chimney exhales a thick smoke”

   synonyms: emanate, give forth

   type of:

   breathe, emit, pass off

   expel (gases or odors)