gentle+breeze

  • 31breeze — breeze1 [bri:z] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: brise, perhaps from bise cold north wind ] 1.) a gentle wind ▪ flowers waving in the breeze 2.) be a breeze informal to be very easy ▪ Don t think that learning Dutch will be a breeze …

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  • 32breeze — Synonyms and related words: air, ball the jack, barrel, blast, blow, blow a hurricane, blow great guns, blow over, blow up, blubber, bluster, boom, bowl along, breath, breeze along, breeze up, brew, brush, butter, carry by storm, cinch, clay,… …

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  • 33breeze — [[t]bri͟ːz[/t]] breezes, breezing, breezed 1) N COUNT A breeze is a gentle wind. ...a cool summer breeze. 2) VERB If you breeze into a place or a position, you enter it in a very casual or relaxed manner. [V prep/adv] Lopez breezed into the… …

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  • 34breeze — /briz / (say breez) noun 1. a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one. 2. Meteorology any wind of Beaufort scale numbers 2 to 6 inclusive, comprising velocities from 4 to 27 knots, i.e. 6 to 49 km/h. 3. Colloquial an easy task …

  • 35breeze — {{11}}breeze (n.) 1560s, north or northeast wind, from O.Sp. briza cold northeast wind; in W.Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to northeast trade wind, then fresh wind from the sea. English sense of gentle or light wind is from 1620s.… …

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  • 36breeze — 1 noun (C) 1 a gentle wind: flowers waving in the breeze 2 be a breeze informal to be something that is very easy to do see also: shoot the breeze shoot 1 (11) 2 verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) to walk somewhere in a calm confident way (+… …

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  • 37breeze — n 1. zephyr, gentle or light wind, Naut. cat s paw; breath, puff of air, whiff, whiffet; waft, current of air, draft, gust, Rare. flurry, blow; sea breeze, lake breeze, land breeze, onshore breeze. 2.Slang. bat or shoot the breezea. chat, Inf.… …

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  • 38gentle — adj. VERBS ▪ appear, be, look, seem ▪ become ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very …

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  • 39breeze — [briːz] noun [C] I a light wind a gentle/light/slight breeze[/ex] II verb [I] breeze [briːz] to go somewhere in a very confident way He breezed into the meeting and took charge.[/ex] • breeze through sth …

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  • 40breeze — 1. noun a) A gentle to moderate wind. The breeze rustled the papers on her desk. b) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult …

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