Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com
Showing results for air-breathe. Search instead for air-breathing.

air-breathe

American  
[air-breeth] / ˈɛərˌbrið /

verb (used without object)

air-breathed, air-breathing

  1. (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.

Etymology

Origin of air-breathe

air 1 + breathe

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.