breath
/breθ/ n [C/U]Definition
› the air that you take into and let out of your lungs: [C usually sing] She drew/took a deep breath. [U] He seemed a little out of breath (= to be breathing too fast). [C usually sing] As he jumped in the pool, he held his breath (= delayed releasing the air in his lungs).
(Definition of breath n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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