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breathalyze

breathalyze verb: to estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer.

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 breathalyze

third-person singular presentbreathalyzes
present participlebreathalyzing
past participlebreathalyzed
pastbreathalyzed
alternative formbreathalyse

Origin of breathalyze

Back-formation from breathalyzer.

Questions about breathalyze

What does breathalyze mean?
Breathalyze means to estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer.
What part of speech is breathalyze?
Breathalyze is a verb.
What is the past tense of breathalyze?
The past tense of breathalyze is breathalyzed.

Words near breathalyze in the dictionary

  1. breathalysed
  2. breathalyser
  3. breathalysers
  4. breathalyses
  5. breathalysing
  6. breathalyze
  7. breathalyzed
  8. breathalyzer
  9. breathalyzers
  10. breathalyzes
  11. breathalyzing

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