breeze
/bɹiːz/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it breezes · Past breezed · Past participle breezed · -ing form breezing
Verb forms
- Base form
- breeze
- He/she/it
- breezes
- Past
- breezed
- Past participle
- breezed
- -ing form
- breezing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The heat of the day had gradually decreased, and a light breeze arose, seeming like the respiration of nature on awakening from the burning siesta of the south.
“What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:—
Anne sighed and, dragging her eyes from the witcheries of the spring world, the beckoning day of breeze and blue, and the green things upspringing in the garden, buried herself resolutely in her book.
They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.
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