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breezen

breezen verb: to grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy.

Verb

breezen (third-person singular simple present breezens, present participle breezening, simple past and past participle breezened)

  1. (intransitive, nonstandard, rare) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy
    • We're going to have a brush out of this, and resk it, you!" declared Job, beating his hat against the counter inside. "It's thick o' snow a'ready, and breezening on stiddy from out here to the s'utheast."1903, George Savary Wasson, Cap'n Simeon's Store, page 52
    • This wind breezens on at every hand's turn now, and I wisht I could know for certain whether Uncle Pelly made out to pull them trawls of hisn, out there on the 'Garden' to-day.1906, Thomas Nixon Carver, How Ought Wealth to be Distributed, page 749

Forms of breezen

third-person singular presentbreezens
present participlebreezening
past participlebreezened
pastbreezened

Origin of breezen

From breeze + -en.

Questions about breezen

What does breezen mean?
Breezen means to grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy.
What part of speech is breezen?
Breezen is a verb.
What is the past tense of breezen?
The past tense of breezen is breezened.

Words near breezen in the dictionary

  1. breezeless
  2. breezelessness
  3. breezelet
  4. breezelets
  5. breezelike
  6. breezen
  7. breezened
  8. breezening
  9. breezens
  10. breezer
  11. breezers

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