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breeze
/bɹiz/
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What does breeze mean?
noun
- A light, gentle wind.
- (figuratively) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
More meanings (10)
noun
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
- A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
verb
- To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- To blow gently.
- 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.
- To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
- To buzz.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɹiz/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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The wind had changed, and was settling down to a comfortable north-westerly breeze—a veritable godsend for a speedy passage across to France.
But the breeze, far from lessening its force, blew as if to bend the mast, which, however, the metallic lashings held firmly.
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Before supper was eaten we buried old Tom in the sand and stood round him for a while bare-headed in the breeze.
The breeze swayed a few dry weeds on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy sound.
I thought at first it was fancy, for whenever I stopped there was silence, save for the evening breeze in the tree-tops.