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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inhale
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ She turned back towards him, leant against the stove and inhaled deeply.
▪ Bethany inhaled deeply and made the embers glow.
▪ She lay back on the ground and inhaled deeply.
▪ Lighting the cigarette, she inhaled deeply, drawing in a suction of relief.
▪ Urquhart inhaled deeply and flexed his firm jaw.
▪ She inhaled deeply, her face a little shocked.
▪ She inhaled deeply and threw her head back to blow the smoke towards the ceiling.
▪ They inhale deeply, as if their very lives depended on that one breath.
■ NOUN
air
▪ If a person continually inhales odorous air, fatigue sets in, due to the adaptation of the nervous responses to the stimuli.
▪ As I step out the door, inhaling the cool air, I smell lightness and relief.
▪ Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross, inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine.
▪ The old man rose, walked to the back door, pushed it open and inhaled a lungful of air.
▪ She sighed and then inhaled the sweet scented air.
smoke
▪ He inhaled the smoke with obvious pleasure.
▪ I inhaled a mouthful of smoke and let it out slowly.
▪ The cops got coffee and cigarettes and sandwiches, but I had to make do with inhaling their used smoke.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Every time he inhaled, his lungs made an awful wheezing sound.
▪ It is dangerous to inhale the fumes produced by these chemicals.
▪ It was later determined that Burke had inhaled poisonous fumes.
▪ Stella lit up a cigarette and inhaled deeply.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhale

Inhale \In*hale"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhaling.] [L. inhalare to breathe upon; pref. in- in + halare to breathe: cf. F. inhaler. Cf. Exhale.] To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale.

Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening.
--Arbuthnot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhale

1725, "to breathe in," back-formation from inhalation or else from Latin inhalare "breathe upon," from in- "upon" (see in- (2)) + halare "breathe." Related: Inhaled; inhaling. Current sense is because the word was taken as the opposite of exhale. Slang sense of "eat rapidly" is recorded from 1924. As a noun, by 1934. Related: Inhaled; inhaling.

Wiktionary
inhale

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. 2 (context transitive English) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. 3 (context transitive figuratively English) To eat very quickly.

WordNet
inhale
  1. v. draw deep into the lungs in by breathing; "Clinton smoked marijuana but never inhaled"

  2. draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well" [syn: inspire, breathe in] [ant: exhale]

Wikipedia
Inhale (song)

"Inhale" is a song by American alternative metal band Stone Sour, featured on their 2002 debut album Stone Sour. Released as the third single by the band in July 2003, the song charted at number 18 on the American Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, while reaching number 63 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 2004 ceremony, losing out to Metallica's " St. Anger".

Inhale (film)

Inhale is a 2010 thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It stars Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger.

Inhale (disambiguation)

Inhalation is the drawing in of a substance from the external environment into the lungs

Inhale may also refer to:

  • Inhale (film), a 2010 American film
  • "Inhale" (song), by Stone Sour
  • Inhale (album), an album by Marsheaux
Inhale (album)

Inhale is the fourth studio album of the Greek synthpop duo Marsheaux. It features 1980s-style synthpop.

Usage examples of "inhale".

The anatomy of the nasal passages, and the various chambers and tubes that communicate therewith, is such that they cannot be reached with fluid administered with any kind of syringe or inhaling tube, or with any instrument, except one constructed to apply it upon the principle above stated.

Dinger said, full of appreciation, inhaling deeply as if he was on the se afront at Yarmouth.

From the twenty-sixth of August to the second of September, that is from the battle of Borodino to the entry of the French into Moscow, during the whole of that agitating, memorable week, there had been the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky.

Seregil inhaled the familiar morning smells of the tower as he and Alec headed up to the workroom the next morning- the mingled incense of parchment, candle smoke, and herbs overlaid with the more immediate aromas of breakfast.

We stayed at Cannes about two months, and except for the fact that Aunt Dahlia lost her shirt at baccarat and Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning, a pleasant time was had by all.

Inhaled sodium azide goes into the lungs and directly into the blood, where its molecules bond with oxygen molecules and render the oxygen unusable.

When I came back I found her inhaling the fresh morning air at the window.

I cannot smoke as other fellows do, and should be fated never to hold a chibouk between my first and second fingers, or to inhale and puff smoke through a flaxen moustache!

In this chamber some half dozen persons were seated in the Eastern fashion, and smoking either the choice tobaccoes of Syria through the cherry-wood or jasmine tube of a Turkish or Egyptian chibouque, or inhaling through rose-water the more artificial flavour of the nargileh, which is the hookah of the Levant.

The other man, happily toying with his sundae, mostly ignored his cigarillo, but as Shadow approached he picked it up, inhaled deeply, and blew two smoke rings-first one large one, then another, smaller one, which passed neatly through the first-and he grinned, as if he were astonishingly pleased with himself.

I have never been able to understand how in Germany the ladies, otherwise so polite and delicate, could inhale the suffocating fumes of a crowd of smokers.

I went for a walk with Bettina and Jasper shortly after my talk with Jasper, leaving Tish with the evening paper and Aggie inhaling a cubeb cigarette, her hay fever having threatened a return.

After passing an afternoon with the drier in the kiln, seated close to a great heap of hops and inhaling the odour, I was in a condition of agreeable excitement all the evening.

Marnoo, that all-attractive personage, having satisfied his hunger and inhaled a few whiffs from a pipe which was handed to him, launched out into an harangue which completely enchained the attention of his auditors.

They were trapped here, flat on the floor, inhaling plaster dust with a gasp, exhaling it with a wheeze, without options, without hope.