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sneezed

sneezed is the simple past and past participle of sneeze.

Meaning of sneeze

Verb

sneeze (third-person singular simple present sneezes, present participle sneezing, simple past sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snoze, past participle sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snoze or (obsolete or humorous) snozen)

  1. (intransitive) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
    • To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.
    Synonyms:
    neeze, sternutate
  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.
    • 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

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Phrases with sneezed

Questions about sneezed

What is sneezed the simple past and past participle of?
Sneezed is the simple past and past participle of sneeze.

Words near sneezed in the dictionary

  1. sneeze guard
  2. sneeze guards
  3. sneeze on the truth
  4. sneeze-box
  5. sneeze-boxes
  6. sneezed
  7. sneezed on the truth
  8. sneezefic
  9. sneezeguard
  10. sneezeguards
  11. sneezeless

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