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Breathe Pronunciation
Breathe is pronounced BREEDH, IPA /ˈbrið/.
BREEDH
US /ˈbrið/ · UK /ˈbriːð/
Syllables: BREEDH (1 syllable)
verb: To take air into the lungs and let it out again.
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Breathe in a Sentence
- Try to breathe slowly through your nose.
- The paint needs to breathe for a day.
- He could hardly breathe by the top of the stairs.
Common Mispronunciations of Breathe
Not BREETH
This is the verb, so the th rings with the voice on, the way it does in those and either.
Not bree-THEE
Stop at the th sound, because that final e only lengthens the vowel in front of it and is never said.
Tip: Breathe rhymes with seethe and wreathe, all three ending on a buzzed th.
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