# breathed

Pronunciation: say "BREETHD" /bɹiːðd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of breathe. — simple past and past participle of breathe
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of breathe. Use this form for breathing that already happened.
   - _The diver breathed steadily through the regulator during the descent._
   - _Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the results came back clear._

## Adjective

Pronunciation: say "BRETHT" /bɹɛθt/

2. Having a specified kind of breath, the quality named by a preceding modifier.
   - Simple: Having a certain kind of breath, named by the word placed in front of it.
   - _The garlic-breathed clerk apologized as he leaned across the counter._
   - _A wine-breathed gentleman stumbled past the gate near midnight._
3. Voiceless; produced without vibration of the vocal cords, in contrast to a voiced sound.
   - Simple: Made with the breath only, without your voice box buzzing.
   - _In English, the consonant in 'fan' is breathed, whereas the one in 'van' is voiced._
   - _Linguists mark the breathed stops with a small diacritic._

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — Formed from the verb "breathe" combined with the suffix "-ed".
**Meanings 2–3** — Formed from the noun "breath" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/breathed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).