ex・haleの英語

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ɛksˈheɪl/
• 韻: -eɪl

動詞

exhale (third-person singular simple present exhales, present participle exhaling, simple past and past participle exhaled)

1. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
2. (transitive) To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
3. (intransitive) To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
   • 2008, Gregor Dallas, Metrostop Paris, John Murray, published 2009, page 9:

     Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.

   • 2025 July 9, Oliver Wheeler, “Action stations...”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 68:

     Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.

4. (transitive) To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).

   The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

   • 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 29:

     Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales.

5. (transitive) To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.

   The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

同意語

• (breathe out (intransitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)
• (expel (transitive)): outbreathe, breathe out, expire (archaic)

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “expel (transitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inhale
• (antonym(s) of “breathe out (intransitive)”): inbreathe, breathe in, inspire

派生語

関連する語

• inhalation
• inhale
• inhaler

名詞

exhale (plural exhales)

1. An exhalation.
   • 2009, David A. Clark, Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice:

     Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.

Further reading

• “exhale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exhale”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “exhale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.