Meaning

1 senses

  1. (dated)To blow increasingly cooler.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Ziri noticed the breeze picking up before the storm.

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  2. About noon the sky darkened, a breeze sprang up, and a low rumble announced the approaching storm.

    ruОколо полудня небо потемнело, поднялся ветер, и низкий рокот грома возвестил надвигающийся шторм. — Wezel

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  3. At last the gale, as if it had rested merely to gain strength, breezed up again with greater fury than ever.

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Forms

breezes up, breezing up, breezed up, breezed up
Base formbreeze up · to breeze up
3rd person singularbreezes up
Present participlebreezing up
Past simplebreezed up
Past participlebreezed up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybreeze up
he, she, itbreezes up

Past simpleLesson

all personsbreezed up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave breezed up
he, she, ithas breezed up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill breeze up

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
breedingB1breezeA2breezyB2brettbrevityC2
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