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Verb respire has 3 senses
  1. respire - breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety
    --1 is one way to     breathe, take a breath, respire, suspire
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. respire - undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbonmonoxide
    --2 is one way to     experience, receive, have, get, undergo
    Derived forms: noun respiration3, noun respiration1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  3. breathe, take a breath, respire, suspire - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
    Derived forms: noun respiration3, noun respirator1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
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