1) the soft growth between the back of the nose and the throat, sometimes making breathing difficult (adenoids)
2) an animal living in water and breathing through gills (fish)
3) to wash the throat with liquid kept in motion by breathing air out through it; a liquid used for gargling (gargle)
4) either of the two organs in the chest of man and other animals, used for breathing (lung)
5) breathing (the usual word) (respiration)
6) connected with breathing (respiratory)
7) (to cause a person, animal) to have great difficulty in breathing (and die) (suffocate)
living
being animatedly existent
having life
alive
air taken into and sent out of the lungs
respiration
a twenty-fourth part of a day; 60 minutes; a point or period of time
brief time period
to exist; be alive (the more usual words)
existent
the large, reddish-brown organ in the body which produces bile and cleans the blood
existent
alive, especially now; a means of keeping alive, of earning what is needed for life
existing, active
minute; minimum
brief time period
a very brief period of time
brief time period
