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# inhaler

noun (an inhaler, inhalers)

«inhaler» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#m1)

### In the lessons

In health and safety lessons, children with asthma use an inhaler, often with a spacer; a blue reliever inhaler opens the airways during an attack, and a preventer inhaler is used every day. Schools keep inhalers handy, and you should tell an adult at once if a friend has trouble breathing. Phrases: «use your inhaler», «blue inhaler», «reliever inhaler».

### Examples

- Jamie takes his inhaler on every school trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x1)
- When she started wheezing, she used her blue inhaler. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x2)
- Shake the inhaler and breathe in slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x3)
- Our teacher keeps spare inhalers in the office. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x4)
- A spacer helps the medicine from the inhaler reach the lungs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x5)
- He uses a brown inhaler every morning to prevent attacks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x6)
- If an inhaler doesn't help, call for help straight away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x7)
- Never use someone else's inhaler. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/#x8)

### Note

Countable; with «an»: «an inhaler». Verb «inhale» (breathe in); opposite «exhale» (breathe out). An inhaler is a medicine, not a toy, and belongs only to the person it was given to.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «inhaler» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inhaler/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«inhaler» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/inhaler.html) on Mova free.