- expel air
"Exhale when you lift the weight"

- give out (breath or an odor)
"The chimney exhales a thick smoke"

1. To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

"Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales." -- Pope.

2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

1. To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

"Their inspiration exhaled in elegies." -- Prescott.