Definition of "sneeze"

sneeze

/sniːz/

verb
third-person singular simple present sneezes, present participle sneezing, simple past sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snoze, past participle sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snozen
1. (intransitive) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
2. (intransitive) To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
3. (transitive) To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.
  Quotations
  Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.
  1924, Hugh Wiley, The Prowler, page 88
  When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy.
  2010, Gunleen Deol, Sleepover Disaster, AuthorHouse, page 15
  I sneezed a big sneeze. It was so big I hit my nose on the sidewalk. Bow-ow. There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of. And it wasn't Muffet's rotten soup odor, either. That was actually kind of delicious.
  2013, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Jane B. Mason, A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #2: Dead Man's Best Friend, Scholastic Inc.
  “Okay,”he said, and sneezed a large drop of pinkish goop. “But you better have a lot to eat! I'll race you upstairs!” Wilmer shook his head. Sherman's hyper energy level seemed to have increased, and that was saying a lot.
  2014, Fowler DeWitt, The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School, Simon and Schuster, page 89
  Toothless sneezed a large amount of dragon snot right in Hiccup's face.
  2017, Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero, Hachette Children's
noun
plural sneezes
1. An act of sneezing.

Definition of "sneeze"

sneeze

verb

Quotations

noun