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Breathed Pronunciation
Breathed is pronounced BREEDHD, IPA /ˈbriðd/.
BREEDHD
US /ˈbriðd/ · UK /ˈbriːðd/
Syllables: BREEDHD (1 syllable)
verb (past tense and past participle of breathe): Took air in and let it out.
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Breathed in a Sentence
- She breathed slowly until the panic passed.
- He breathed on the glass and wrote in the mist.
- Nobody breathed a word about it afterwards.
Common Mispronunciations of Breathed
Not BRETHD
This comes from breathe, with the long ee of beach, so the vowel is not the short e of breath. The noun and the verb differ in exactly that way.
Not BREE-thid
Run it all into one beat. After a voiced th the ed is a bare d, which gives BREEDHD.
Tip: Breath is short and breathe is long, and this past tense follows breathe: BREEDHD.
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