Definition of "breeze"

breeze¹

/bɹiːz/

noun
plural breezes
1. A light, gentle wind.
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  Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
  1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
  Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 168
2. (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
3. (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
4. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
5. A brief workout for a racehorse.
verb
third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed
1. (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
  Quotations
  Resting most of their first-choice players for Sunday's vital Euro 2024 qualifier against Croatia, Wales started with four debutants and breezed into an early lead thanks to headers by captain Ben Davies and Kieffer Moore.
  2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport‎
2. (weather) To blow gently.
  Quotations
  She's sitting opposite a window that's gently breezing into her face, wafting her hair into cover-girl perfection ...
  2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎
3. 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.
4. (of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
  Quotations
  The first was a school of medium-sized ( 10-pound average ) fish that breezed frequently but bit poorly.
  1970, Commercial Fisheries Review - Volume 32, page 37
  The Queen Mary stood by while a speedboat moved ahead of a breezing school of tuna to deploy the sound projector and a sonobuoy (Figure 6).
  1979, Frank T. Awbrey, Thomas Duffy, WIlliam E. Evans, C. Scott Johnson, Wesley Parks, John DeBeer, The Tuna/Porpoise Problem: Dedicated Vessel Research Program, page 10
  An intermediate line has its place when chasing breezing tuna that are moving at mach speed on the surface.
  2011, Mike Rieser, Fly Fishing the Baja and Beyond, page 143

breeze²

/bɹiːz/

noun
plural breezes
1. A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
verb
third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed
1. (intransitive) To buzz.

breeze³

/bɹiːz/

noun
plural breezes
1. Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.

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