respiring

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ

respiring

1. present participle and gerund of respire

respiring (usually uncountable, plural respirings)

1. An act of respiration.
   • 2005, Auburn University, Southern humanities review, volume 39, number 3, page 140:

     I would walk through the rooms I rented and listen to the unhurried murmurs the town made, constant and rhythmic, as subtly troubled as the nighttime respirings of a light sleeper. There was never silence.

• reprising, springier