breeze
verb/briːz/
/briːz/
[intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they breeze | /briːz/ /briːz/ |
| he / she / it breezes | /ˈbriːzɪz/ /ˈbriːzɪz/ |
| past simple breezed | /briːzd/ /briːzd/ |
| past participle breezed | /briːzd/ /briːzd/ |
| -ing form breezing | /ˈbriːzɪŋ/ /ˈbriːzɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. to move in a cheerful and confident way in a particular direction
- She just breezed in and asked me to help.
Word Originmid 16th cent.: probably from Old Spanish and Portuguese briza ‘NE wind’ (the original sense in English).
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