exhale

exhale
    v 1: expel air; "Exhale when you lift the weight" [syn:
         {exhale}, {expire}, {breathe out}] [ant: {breathe in},
         {inhale}, {inspire}]
    2: give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick
       smoke" [syn: {exhale}, {give forth}, {emanate}]
    

Exhale \Ex*hale"\, v. i.
   To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.
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         Their inspiration exhaled in elegies.    --Prescott.
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Exhale \Ex*hale"\ ([e^]ks*h[=a]l" or [e^]gz*[=a]l"), v. t. [imp.
   & p. p. {Exaled}, p. pr. & vb. n.. {Exaling}.] [L. exhalare;
   ex out + halare to breathe; cf.F. exhaler. Cf. {Inhale}.]
   1. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as
      an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor;
      marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
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            Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sun
      exhales the moisture of the earth.
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78 Moby Thesaurus words for "exhale":
      aerate, aerify, atomize, be aromatic, be redolent of, blow,
      blow off, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out,
      carbonate, chlorinate, cough, discharge, distill, eject, emanate,
      emit, emit a smell, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate,
      exhaust, expel, expire, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate,
      gasify, gasp, give forth, give off, give out, give vent to, gulp,
      hack, hiccup, huff, hydrogenate, inhale, inspire, issue forth,
      let out, open the floodgates, open the sluices, oxygenate, pant,
      pass off, perfume, puff, reek, respire, send out, sigh, smell,
      smell of, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff,
      snuffle, spray, steam, stink, sublimate, sublime, throw off, vapor,
      vaporize, volatilize, wheeze, yield an odor