Sekirov Dictionary

breeze

/bɹiːz/

noun 7
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 7

noun7

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a soft wind that moves the air only a little
- The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
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(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
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An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- The discovery produced a breeze.
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
A brief workout for a racehorse.
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

verb5

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To blow gently.
- She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ... — 2014
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
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To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly. — 1970
To buzz.

forms

breezed · breezing · breezes

Phrases with breeze

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