Definitions for Breeze

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Breeze breeze

Spelling: [breez]

IPA: /briz/

Breeze is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Breeze (beeerz).

Definitions for Breeze

noun

1. a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
2. a wind of 4–31 miles per hour (2–14 m/sec).
3. Informal. an easy task; something done or carried on without difficulty:
4. Chiefly British Informal. a disturbance or quarrel.
5. cinders, ash, or dust from coal, coke, or charcoal.
6. concrete, brick, or cinder block in which such materials form a component.

Idioms

1. shoot / bat the breeze, Slang. to converse aimlessly; chat. to talk nonsense or exaggerate the truth:

Verb phrases

1. breeze in, Slang. to win effortlessly: Also, breeze into/out.to move or act with a casual or careless attitude:
2. breeze up, Atlantic States. to become windy.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move in an easy or effortless manner, especially at less than full speed:

verb (used without object)

1. (of the wind) to blow a breeze (usually used impersonally with it as subject):
2. to move in a self-confident or jaunty manner:
3. Informal. to proceed quickly and easily; move rapidly without intense effort (often followed by along, into, or through):

Origin of Breeze

1555-65; earlier brize, brise north or northeast wind; compare Dutch bries, East Frisian brîse, French brize, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan brisa, Italian brezza; orig. and path of transmissio

Examples for Breeze

He has an air, it is true, but his air is not a breeze, like the air of a pretender to fashion.

For a moment Pierre was transported as by a breeze of hope and triumph.

The white blooms dotted the asphalt and swirled in the breeze under the orange glow of the street lamps.

A morning-glory vine hanging from a guy wire stirs, like a heavy curtain, in the cool morning breeze.

Her stiff cap moved in the breeze as it swung from the corner of her mirror.

Every move in Damascus has wide repercussions in Beirut or, as a local say, “a breeze in Syria becomes a storm in Lebanon.”

There is a breeze, and that is the only thing that differentiates it from a sauna.

He struck a match, but the breeze from the window fan blew it out.

They were trembling, not so much under the breeze as from the hurrying rhythm of the year.

Not a breeze can stir but it thrills us with the breath of autumn.