exhalev.1
/ɛksˈheɪl//ɛɡzˈheɪl/ I. To give, pass, or draw off in vapour.
1. transitive. To breathe, give forth, or disengage from the surface; to send up (fumes, gas, vapour, etc.): to give off in vapour. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > gas > [verb (transitive)] > emit as fumes or vapour
vapourc1430
fume1563
exhalea1628
vaporatea1640
steam1666
outgas1971
off-gas1979
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > as a vapour
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transpire1598
evapour1615
evaporatea1626
exhalea1628
to cast off1674
perspire1680
pant1735
a1628 Sir J. Beaumont Epiphany in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 144 We shall exhale our vapours vp direct.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 29 It had lost near two drams of its former weight, which was exhaled by insensible Transpiration.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 421 Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale From her moist Continent to higher Orbes. View more context for this quotation
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iv. 105 The Vapours, which by their acquir'd Heat they have exhal'd.
1772 W. Jones tr. Petrarch in Poems 92 Ev'ry bow'r exhal'd the sweets of May.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 248 This mineral water..exhales no perceptible smell.
1849 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 8) xxvii. 301 They [plants] exhale oxygen.
1870 R. W. Emerson Civilization in Wks. (1906) III. 38 Eloquence..may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and colour.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 67 Water..exhaled from the leaves of plants and from the lungs and skin of animals.
2.
a. intransitive. Of vapour, perfume, †heat, etc.: To pass off into the air. Of a liquid, etc.: To pass off as vapour; to evaporate. Const. from, out of.
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the world > matter > gas > [verb (intransitive)] > of vapour, etc.: be emitted, rise, or pass off
to stand upc1300
risea1382
exhalec1400
steam1582
fume1594
suffumigate1599
emanate1818
off-gas1979
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > be emitted > emit vapour
puff1828
exhale1860
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. B) ii. iii. 149 Spirites exaleþ whyche þat buþ frendys, boþe to þe body & eke to þe soule.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 303 Se the floode be goode ther thou will duelle: For ofte of it exaleth myst impure.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §399 Fire doth lick up the Spirits and Blood of the Body, so as they exhale.
1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 66 Let it be melted..with a soft fire, that all the moisture may exhale.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 257 Cover the Earth with good Straw-Mats, that the Heat may not exhale.
1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xxviii. vi. 417 The same has been observed as to Acid Liquors, by the sower Smell that exhales from them.
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. viii. 329 When the matrass is made red-hot, sulphureous vapours exhale.
1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 203 When flowers reach their ripeness, incense exhales from them.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vii. 213 Prince Henries immature death, as if all our liues had exhaled with his.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 255 When Orient Light Exhaling first from Darkness they beheld. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 His Hopes exhal'd in empty Smoke. View more context for this quotation
1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) III. xviii. 562 His indignation exhaled in a letter to the Count d'Artois.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 174 The illusion and lifelikeness..exhales out of a picture as it grows old.
3. Physiology and Pathology. Of animal fluids: To pass off in minute quantities through a membrane or blood vessel. Also in passive.
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the world > life > the body > internal organs > [verb (intransitive)] > pass off through membrane or blood vessel
exhalec1400
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. A) 126 Þei loken if ony þing exale out bi þilke rimelle—as blod or ony other mater.
1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 79 The fluid which the ultimate ramifications of the arteries exhale in it [the cellular tissue].
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 19 The extremities of the vessels simply spread themselves over large surfaces, whence the produced fluid exhales.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 401/1 Blood is..rarely exhaled at the internal surface of the bladder.
1865 Morning Star 23 Feb. The blood merely oozes through the coats of the relaxed vessels—in medical phrase we say it is exhaled.
4.
a. transitive. To draw up or drive off in the form of vapour; to evaporate; rarely, †to draw up (a vapour); to draw out the perfume of (e.g. a rose).
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the world > matter > gas > becoming or making into gas > make into gas or produce gas from [verb (transitive)] > make into vapour > evaporate
dryc1350
to dry upc1385
consumea1398
vapour1530
exhale1589
exhalate1599
waste1639
evaporate1646
avolate1673
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **3 The sea exhaled by droppes will in continuance be drie.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 13 Yon light..is some Meteor that the Sunne exhales . View more context for this quotation
1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 53 The Sunne exhales vapours from the Sea.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §413 The November Rose is the sweetest, having been less exhaled by the Sun.
1651 J. French Art Distillation iii. 65 These Salts must..be calcined, which is done by exhaling their flegme.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 235 A prodigious Quantity of clear Water must be exhal'd, to get an Ounce of dry Sediments.
1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 5 Bitumen and sulphur which the burning sun exhaled from the waters of the lake.
1836 R. W. Emerson Nature viii. 94 The..filths of nature, the sun shall dry up, and the wind exhale.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 67 Thou faire Sunne, which on my earth doost shine, Exhalst this vapour-vow. View more context for this quotation
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 105 Teares..not sufficient to exhale and evaporate the heavinesse of her heart.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 431 The warm sun exhales their soul away.
II. To breathe or blow forth from within.
5. To breathe out (life, soul, words, a prayer, etc.).
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > exhale [verb (transitive)]
fnastc1400
to breathe out1556
outbreathe1563
aspire1575
exhale1589
expire1590
expirate1615
spirate1649
spire1649
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F4 Hee exhaled into his eyes such deepe impression of his perfection, as that, [etc.].
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 196 Twelue men, of greatest strength in Troy, left with their liues exhald.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xiii. §3. 140 In these miserable torments, they both..exhaled their execrable soules.
a1638 J. Mede Christian Sacrif. v, in Wks. (1672) ii. 362 An Oration exhaled..from sanctified Souls.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. i. 355 And silent words Of mercy breathed from heaven will be exhaled..into thy wither'd heart.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. ix. 203 The Romans, conceived the soul..as exhaled with the dying breath.
6. To blow off (as steam); chiefly figurative to get rid of (enthusiasm, wrath, etc.) as if by blowing. Also, to exhale oneself. Cf. blow v.1 10.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest or exhibit (emotions) [verb (transitive)] > expel emotion in noisy or vigorous manner
exhale1745
to blow off1836
1745 Fortunate Orphan 237 I exhaled my Grief in the bitterest Exclamations.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 113 Archibald..suffered him to exhale his passion in..oaths.
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle viii. 104 To narrate his misadventures, and exhale his budget of grievances.
1845 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 341 I have exhaled myself with a paragraph or two in my journal on the sin of Brazilian slavery.
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 9 Sulphur is exhaled from the volcanoes at the time of their activity.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White ii. narr. viii. 245 I..exhale the rest of my enthusiasm in the open air.
1867 Month June 512 I could not exhale my wrath before his grace.
7. intransitive. To make an expiration; opposed to inhale n.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > exhale [verb (intransitive)]
breathea1382
spirea1382
blazec1384
inspire1513
tuff?1553
to breathe out1576
huff1582
expire1633
outbreathe1638
aspirec1750
exhale1863
1863 J. Tyndall Heat iii. 54 When we exhale, we pour out from the lungs carbonic acid.
Derivatives
exˈhaled adj. (in senses 1, 4).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > emitting as a vapour > emitted as a vapour or liquid
exhaled1594
anheled1644
perspired1664
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F3v Let their exhald vnholdsome breaths make sicke The life of puritie. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. i. 19 Will you..be no more an exhalde meteor. View more context for this quotation
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 186 That which we call a fired whirlwinde, being an exhaled blast set on fire.
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† exhalev.2
Obsolete.
To drag out or draw forth.
1.
a. transitive. To drag (a person) away; to draw (a thing) out of. Also absol. to draw (a sword) from the scabbard.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > away
exhale1600
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > use or fight with sword [verb (intransitive)] > draw sword
draw?1570
exhale1600
to lug out1684
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 60 O braggard vile..The Graue doth gape, and groaning Death is neare, therefore exall [1623 exhale].
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iii. sig. E3 Nay, I beseech you, Gentlemen, doe not exhale me thus. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 514 A mouse being flead..and put vnto a wound..wil presently..exhale and draw them [sc. the head of a dart, etc.] out of the same.
1615 T. Adams Spirituall Nauigator 34 in Blacke Devill Couetous wretches; that would dig to the Center to exhale riches.
b. To cause (blood, tears) to flow. Const. from. (Probably influenced by exhale v.1 4.)
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [verb (transitive)]
exhale1597
bathe1720
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 58 Tis thy presence that exhales this bloud, From cold and empty veines. View more context for this quotation
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 534/1 These words exhaled ioyfull teares from off many of the hearers.
1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 86 That did from Fida's eyes salt teares exhale.
2. To draw up; raise (a person) to a higher position. rare. Cf. exalt v. 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important > of people
exhale1595
aggrandize1702
1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile B vij b Thou..Whom men adore, and all the gods exhall [rhyme call] Into the books of endlesse memorie.
1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. E2 They whose mindes should be exhal'd and hye.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 45 When Kings rise higher than they should, they exhale Subjects higher than they would.
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