Usually means: Breathing in oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide.
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  1. respiring: Merriam-Webster
  2. respiring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. respiring: Vocabulary.com
  4. respiring: Wordnik
  5. respiring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. respiring: Wiktionary
  7. Respiring, respiring: Dictionary.com
  8. Respiring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Respiring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. respiring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. respiring: FreeDictionary.org
  12. respiring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. respiring: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. respiring: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  An act of respiration.

Similar:
breathe, take a breath, respiration, breath, resuscitation, reinspiration, suspiration, inhalation, anapnea, exhalation, more...

Opposite:
asphyxiation, suffocation, apnea, anoxia, breathlessness

Types:
aerobic, anaerobic, more...

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Similar:
breathe, take a breath, respiration, breath, resuscitation, reinspiration, suspiration, inhalation, anapnea, exhalation, more...

Opposite:
asphyxiation, suffocation, apnea, anoxia, breathlessness

Types:
aerobic, anaerobic, more...



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