Verb
breathe upon (third-person singular simple present breathes upon, present participle breathing upon, simple past and past participle breathed upon)
(transitive) To tarnish or soil.
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. Cormac McCarthy
This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it. Desiderius Erasmus
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it? André Gide