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breeze1

Syllabification: (breeze)
Pronunciation: /brēz/
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Definition of breeze

noun

  • 1a gentle wind.
  • [with modifier] a wind of force 2 to 6 on the Beaufort scale (4-27 knots or 4.5-31 mph).
  • 2 informal a thing that is easy to do or accomplish:traveling through London was a breeze

verb

[no object] informal
  • come or go in a casual or lighthearted manner:I breezed in as if nothing were wrong
  • deal with something with apparently casual ease:the computer has the power to breeze through huge documents he breezed to victory

Phrases

shoot the breeze

see shoot.

Origin:

mid 16th century: probably from Old Spanish and Portuguese briza 'northeastern wind' (the original sense in English)

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