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breathalyse

breathalyse is the alternative spelling of breathalyze.

Meaning of breathalyze

Verb

breathalyze (third-person singular simple present breathalyzes, present participle breathalyzing, simple past and past participle breathalyzed)

  1. To estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer

Forms of breathalyse

third-person singular presentbreathalyses
present participlebreathalysing
past participlebreathalysed
pastbreathalysed

Origin of breathalyse

Back-formation from breathalyser.

Questions about breathalyse

What is breathalyse the alternative spelling of?
Breathalyse is the alternative spelling of breathalyze.

Words near breathalyse in the dictionary

  1. breathability
  2. breathable
  3. breathableness
  4. breathalizer
  5. breathalizers
  6. breathalyse
  7. breathalysed
  8. breathalyser
  9. breathalysers
  10. breathalyses
  11. breathalysing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breathalyse (page history and authors); breathalyze (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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