Meanings
breathed1
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of breathe
breathed2
adjectivebreathed (not comparable)
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified kind of breath.
A less matter would hold a well-breathed minstrel in subject for recitation for a calendar month, Sundays and holydays included.
1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter III, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 1031 more example
She was so mad you'd have thought she'd been propositioned by a bad-breathed lobbyist in a broken-elevator encounter at City Hall.
2005, Atlanta Magazine, volume 45, number 1, page 26
Breathed3
proper noun
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveuttered without voice
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Origin
breathed · verb
- Middle Englishbreeth
- Middle Englishbrethen
- Englishbreathe
- Englishbreathed
Rhymes & wordplay
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breathed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breathed
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“breathed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breathed. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breathed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breathed.
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