breathe upon

Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

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

Close letter words and terms

breathe one's last before breathe one's last breath breathe out breathed breathed in breathed out