Breathing - Definition

adj 1: passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs
normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was
disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living
breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the
telephone" [syn: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic]
[ant: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal,
dyspnoeic]
n 1: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the
process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing
carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external
respiration, respiration, ventilation]