respire

Verb

• draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
  • I can breathe better when the air is clean
    
  • The patient is respiring
    

• undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide

• breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  breathe , take a breath , suspire