breathed

Adjective
Synonyms: voiceless

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. uttered without voice“could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'”“voiceless whispers”Synonyms: voiceless
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Breathe \Breathe\ (br[=e][th]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Breathed (br[=e][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing.] [From Breath.] [1913 Webster]

1.To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! --Sir W. Scott [The Lay of the Last Minstrel]. [1913 Webster +PJC]

2.To take breath; to rest from action. [1913 Webster]

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. [1913 Webster]

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.— Byron.[1913 Webster]
breathed \breathed\ (br[e^]tht), adj. having breath or breath as specified; usually used in combination; as, sweet-breathed. [WordNet 1.5]
breathed \breathed\ (br[=e][th]d), adj. uttered without voice.

Syn: voiceless. [WordNet 1.5]

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