breathe vs mimic

breathe

verb
  • To give an impression of, to exude. 

  • To inspire (scripture). 

  • To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way. 

  • To live. 

  • To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath. 

  • To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise. 

  • To inhale (a gas) to sustain life. 

  • To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases. 

  • To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.). 

  • To whisper quietly. 

  • To expel air from the lungs, exhale. 

  • To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently. 

  • To draw something into the lungs. 

  • To exchange gases with the environment. 

  • To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

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