Past tense of breathe
regular verb
The past tense of breathe is breathed. The past participle is also breathed.
Forms of breathe
| Base form (V1) | breathe /bɹiːð/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | breathed /bɹiːðd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | breathed /bɹiːðd/ |
| Present participle | breathing /ˈbɹiːðɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | breathes /bɹiːðz/ |
Breathed in a sentence
- The flowers breathed a heady perfume.
- He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.
- I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.From the entry cough
- She lifted her thumb off the carb and breathed in the thick smoke.From the entry carb
- She breathed in the strong, spicy aroma.From the entry spicy
Meaning of breathe
- verb To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- verb To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- verb To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
Questions about the past tense of breathe
- What is the past tense of breathe?
- The past tense of breathe is breathed.
- What is the past participle of breathe?
- The past participle of breathe is breathed.
- Is breathe a regular or irregular verb?
- Breathe is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: breathe (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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