“Take a deep breath and breathe out.”
Occasionally we are confused when we write the words breath and breathe .
Breath is a noun denoting the air that is either inhaled or exhaled during breathing,
Breath rhymes with ‘death’.
Eg: They decided to fight until their last breath .
Air out
Breathe is a verb and rhymes with ‘seethe’. It can be used to mean the following:
To inhale and expel air from the lungs
Eg: Fish breathe through their lungs.
To allow air to pass through
Eg: Corduroy absorbs and releases moisture quickly; thus it’s a fabric that breathes .
To utter
Eg: Don’t breathe a word about this to anyone.
To impart
Eg: A true artist breathes life into his portraits.
To breathe down one’s neck is an idiom meaning to stay close to someone, watching everything he does and it could be quite irritating to have someone do that to you. To breathe one’s last means to die.
