Breathes in dodgy parasites (9)

I believe the answer is:

aspirates

'breathes in' is the definition.
(aspirating is a kind of breathing in)

'dodgy parasites' is the wordplay.
'dodgy' indicates an anagram (a dodgy or wrong order of the letters).
'parasites' with letters rearranged gives 'ASPIRATES'.

(Another definition for aspirates that I've seen is " Breathes harder".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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