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▪ I. inhale, v.|ɪnˈheɪl|
[ad. L. inhālā-re to breathe upon, f. in- (in-2) + hālāre to breathe out, emit as breath. Cf. F. inhaler (Littré). The current sense, in Fr. and Eng., has arisen from taking the word as the opposite of exhale.]
1. a. trans. To breathe in; to draw in by (or as by) breathing; to take into the lungs. Used spec. of the taking in of anæsthetics in form of gas or vapour; of tobacco smoke; and absol., as in do you inhale?
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 773 But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, They inhaled the sweet breath of flowers and herbs. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 194 Observing a threatening degree of pulmonary affection to have apparently resulted from incautiously inhaling the distempered vapour of phthisical patients. 1863Tyndall Heat iii. 54 We are continually inhaling and exhaling atmospheric air. 1878L. P. Meredith Teeth 195 She inhaled the gas properly.
absol.1863Tyndall Heat iii. 54 When we inhale, the oxygen passes across the cell-walls of the lungs and mixes with the blood. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! (1934) iii. i. 85 Say, you oughtn't to inhale like that! Smoking's awful bad for girls, anyway. 1970New Yorker 17 Oct. 36/3 He reached for a package of Celtique cigarettes, took one, lit it, and inhaled deeply.
b. fig.
1791Gifford Baviad 187 There, smoking hot, inhale Mit Yenda's strains. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vi. 381 His fellow chiefs inhale the hero's flame. 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Oxf. in Vac., I seem to inhale learning. a1872Maurice Friendship Bks. iv. (1874) 116 It is a very wonderful operation this, of inhaling opinions, and then of exhaling them again.
2. loosely. To absorb (liquid).
1841A. Combe Digestion (ed. 3) 75 The..venous capillaries [of the stomach]..inhale or absorb fluid, which they carry into the general circulation.
Hence inˈhaling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also inˈhalement = inhalation.
1820Ellen Fitzarthur p. vi, To breathe with deep inhaling sense The floating odours wafted thence. 1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 461 This matin inhalement..recommended to cousin Dowgate for his troublesome asthma. 1864Reader 5 Nov. 573/3 The inhaling of foul air.
▪ II. ˈinhale, n. U.S.
[f. the vb.]
The action of inhaling (tobacco smoke).
1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) v. 133 Not holding the cigarette very expertly, but taking appalling inhales. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 179 Drawing the cigar to life in one slow inhale-exhale. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 45 He lit a cigarette, and then after the first couple of inhales, he felt the anger coming back in him. |