Sekirov Dictionary

sneeze

/sniːz/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 5
phrases 1

verb3

•
To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
- To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.
To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
•
To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.
- Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose. — 1924

noun1

•
An act of sneezing.
- Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.

forms

sneezed · snoze · snozen · sneezing · sneezes

Phrases with sneeze

sneeze on the truth
To sneeze just after somebody says something, superstitiously believed to verify or validate their statement.

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