Reverse Dictionary: BREATHE

ADJECTIVES
► ANHELANT characterized by laboured breathing or shortness of breath → 1657 obs.
► ANHELED breathing with pain or difficulty → 1656 obs.
► ANHELOSE characterized by laboured breathing or shortness of breath → 1661 
► ANHELOUS characterized by laboured breathing or shortness of breath → 1617 
► BREATHTAKING preventing or inhibiting breathing → 1840 
► BROKEN-WINDED experiencing breathing difficulties; out of breath → 1584 
► HEAZY breathing with difficulty, hoarse, wheezing → 1790 Eng. dial.
► LUNG-CRACKED out of breath; issuing from exhausted lungs → 1636 obs.
► NARROW of breathing: difficult → 1000 obs.
► PANKING breathing hard; panting → 1746 Eng. dial.
► PURSICK suffering from difficulty in breathing; short of breath; esp. used of a horse → 1303 obs.
► SPIRABLE having the power of breathing → 1562 obs.
► STRONG-BREATHED breathing strongly; capable of  vigorous action without becoming out of breath; hence, healthy, fit, robust → 1626 
► SUSPIRIOUS breathing with difficulty or painfully → 1657 
► THICK-LIFTED breathing with difficulty; short-winded, wheezy → 1746 Eng. dial.
► THICK-LISTED breathing with difficulty; short-winded, wheezy → 1790 Eng. dial.
► THICK-WINDED bad at breathing, husky → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ANHELATION laboured breathing; shortness of breath → 1548 
► ASPIRATION a breathing or drawing one’s breath a breath → 1608 
► ASPIREMENT breathing, breath → 1393 obs.
► ATTRACTION a breathing in; inhalation → 1528 obs.
► AYNDING breathing; breath → 1485 Sc. obs.
► EXPIRATION a breathing out air from the lungs → 1603 
► FETCH a breathing → 1552 obs.
– a difficulty in breathing → 1876 Eng. dial.
► FLATION a breaking or blowing → 1708 obs.
► FNASTING breathing, snorting → 1382 obs.
► HASSELING ► HASSLING panting, laboured breathing → 1928 Amer. dial.
► INBREATHING a breathing in → 1382 
► INSPIRATION a breaking in or inhaling → 1564 
► INSUFFLATION a breathing on or into → 1621 
► LUCTATION a struggling for breath → 1678 obs.
► MEATHY ► MEUTHY a difficult respiration caused by rareness of the air → 1794 Eng. dial.
► ORTH breath, breathing → 1000 obs.
► PERSPIRATION a breathing out → 1611 obs.
► RUTTLE a rattling sound in the throat caused by difficulty in breathing; especially used of a dying person → 1713 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SINKING SPELL an episode of shortness of breath, weakness, palpitations, or the like; a spell of difficult breathing → 1874 Amer. dial.
► SMOTHERING SPELL difficult in breathing → 1878 Amer. dial.
► SOUFFLEMENT a breathing, blowing → 1483 obs.
► SPIRATION a breathing or drawing breath → 1568 obs.
► STRAITNESS difficulty or shortness of breathing → 1398 obs.
► SUFFLING a sound as of heavy breathing → 1904 
► SUPERFLATION a breathing on somebody or something → 1690 obs.
► SUSPIRATION breathing, deep breathing; breath → 1604 
► SUSPIRY a breathing, respiration → 1398 obs.
► THE SMOTHERS a feeling that lasts for a short while, with difficult breathing and heart beating fast → 1968 Amer. dial.

PHRASES
► PUFFING LIKE A GRAMPUS breathing hard → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ABLOW to breathe into → 1000 obs.
► ADHALATE to breathe or blow on → 1626 obs.
► AFFLATE to breathe on → 1475 
► AND to breathe; to whisper; to devise; to imagine → 19C Sc. obs.
► ASPIRE to breathe forth; to exhale → 1750 obs.
► AYND ► ONDE to breathe → 1350 obs.
► BELLOWS to breathe hard; to be out of breath → 1883 Eng. dial.
► BLAW to breathe → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLOW to breathe; to take breath → 1440 Eng. dial.
► BLUSTER to blow, to breathe hard → 1530 obs.
► CAW to breathe with difficulty; to make a hoarse noise, to gasp for breath → 1671 Eng. dial.
► EIN to breathe, to whisper, to devise, to imagine → 1887 Sc. obs.
► EMBREATHE to breathe in, to inhale → 1867 
► ETHE to breathe → 1000 obs.
► EXSUFFLE to breathe upon → 1610 obs.
► FARZE to breathe upon; to blow softly → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FNAST to breath hard, to pant → 1000 obs.
► GROOZLE to breathe with difficulty: generally applied to children → 19C Sc.
► HALE to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale → 1892 Eng. dial.
► HALE FOR BREATH to breathe heavily; to pant; to inhale → 1892 Eng. dial.
► HASSEL ► HASSLE to breathe or pant noisily → 1928 Amer. dial.
► HEAZE to breathe thickly and with difficulty; to wheeze; to cough or ‘hawk’ → 1788 Eng. dial.
► IMBREATHE to breathe in, to inhale → 1574 
► INSPIRE to breathe or blow → 1513 obs.
► INSUFFLATE to breathe in or blow → 1706 
► MEETH to breathe with difficulty; to choke → 1851 Eng. dial.
► OUTBREATHE to breathe out; to emit as breath → 1563 poetic usage
► PANK to breathe hard, to pant → 1669 Eng. dial.
► PECH to breathe hard, as from exertion, or with difficulty → 1538 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PEW to breathe → 1912 Sc.
► PIPE to breathe hard, to pant from exertion → 1814 orig. & chiefly boxing sl., obs.
► QUEASE to breathe → 1500 Sc.
► QUELTY to breathe → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUERK to emit the breath forcibly, esp. after violent exertion → 1790 Eng. dial.
► RESPIRATE to breathe → 1743 
► ROAR to breathe hard → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► ROUT to breathe out, to exhale → 1540 
► RUTTLE to breathe with difficulty and noise, like a dying person → 1300 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SMOTHER to experience shortness of breath → 1837 Amer. dial.
► SNOACH to breathe or speak thought the nose → 1844 Eng. dial.
► SNORK to breathe noisily; esp. said of horses and pigs → 1807 now Eng. dial.
► SNOTTER to breathe heavily; to snort or snore → 1710 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SPIRATE to breathe out → 1649 obs.
► SPIRE to breathe; to blow gently → 1382 obs.
► SUCK to draw breath into the mouth; to inhale air, smoke, etc. → 1590 obs.
► SUSPIRE to breathe → 1600 
► THOCK to breathe heavily or pant with exertion → 1850 Eng. dial.
► VENT to rise to the surface in order to breathe → 1590