The body
Synonyms for breathe
The synonym for breathe recorded in this bank is respire, in the sense "draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for breathe
- respireverb, in the sense "draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day breathe is audited in a second meaning.
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
I can breathe better when the air is clean.
The true synonym
respire
Same sentence, swapped: I can respire better when the air is clean.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- rest
- emit
- practice
Where breathe turns up in the game
breathe is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where breathe is the trap
- passverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is eliminate, in the sense "eliminate from the body", and breathe is on the board beside it.
Play breathe
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so breathe reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because the body is the company breathe keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. breathe carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.