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the only thing keeping you alive that you can boss around
means To take air into your lungs and let it out again, the involuntary in-and-out that keeps you alive.
from From Old English 'brǣth,' which oddly meant 'smell, scent, exhalation, vapor' — the warm fog of air rather than the act of moving it. The verb 'breathe' grew from the noun 'breath,' and over time the two split apart in spelling and in sound, leaving us the neat pair we use today: 'breath' the thing, 'breathe' the doing.
- daily count
- about 22,000 breaths every single day
- freediver record
- humans have held breath over 24 minutes
- autopilot
- the brainstem breathes for you while unconscious
- hidden cost
- breathing burns roughly 1 to 2 calories per minute
- plant deal
- you exhale the carbon trees crave
for instance
the beatles breathe — pink floyd track from dark side of the moon, 1973
breathe carolina — american rock band formed in 2006 in wilmington, north carolina
breathe your last — final breathing exercise before death, documented in hospice palliative care