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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

exhalar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /eks.aˈlaɾ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Exhale/ɛksˈheɪl/
verbnounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Toma una respiración profunda y exhala despacio."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To breathe out air or steam from the lungs.

    "She took a deep breath in and slowly exhaled."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of breathing out.

    "With a heavy exhale, he finally relaxed into the chair."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'exhalare', formed by combining 'ex-' (meaning out) and 'halare' (meaning to breathe). Entering the English language in the late 14th century via Old French, it originally maintained its literal anatomical meaning of breathing out air or vapor.

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