Exhale Definition

ĕks-hāl, ĕk-sāl

exhaled, exhales, exhaling

verb

exhaled, exhales, exhaling

To breathe out.

Webster's New World

To be given off or rise into the air as vapor; evaporate.

Webster's New World

To breathe out (air, cigarette smoke, etc.)

Webster's New World

To be given off or emitted.

American Heritage Medicine

To give off (vapor, fumes, etc.)

Webster's New World

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Origin of Exhale

From Middle French exhaler, from Latin exhalare, from ex (“out”) + halare (“to breathe”).

From Wiktionary
Middle English exalen from Latin exhālāre ex- ex- hālāre to breathe

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition