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Definition of sneeze in English: sneezeverb sniːzsniz [no object]Make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth due to irritation of one's nostrils. the smoke made her sneeze Example sentencesExamples - The same pressure may cause you to leak urine when sneezing, coughing or laughing.
- I tried to keep up with him, sneezing and trying to catch my breath and calm my heart.
- Everyone is sneezing and very few people can breathe properly.
- The horse had an allergic reaction and began sneezing uncontrollably with me on his back.
- And then Wendy sneezed, she sneezed so forcefully that the door trembled slightly under her fingers.
- She sneezed, then held her breath for a few seconds in case the noise had betrayed her to anyone.
- My head is starting to feel like it's going to explode and I'm sneezing like crazy.
- She sighed and stood up, then her nose started to curl up as she sneezed and coughed.
- She'd give you detention for sneezing in her class, coughing or even loud breathing.
- The flu virus is usually spread in the small droplets of saliva coughed or sneezed into the atmosphere by an infected person.
- Spread by virus-infected droplets that are coughed or sneezed into the air, the flu is contagious.
- I stood up quickly and sneezed as a floating dog hair fell into my nose.
- There were feathers under her nose and they tickled so she sneezed again.
- Colds typically spread through infected respiratory droplets coughed or sneezed into the air.
- The paper advised parents to show children how to cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.
- Her nose twitched, then she sneezed and opened her eyes and lay there, blinking contentedly in the morning light.
- The strange smell of smoke wafted up her nostrils and she sneezed.
- Their feathers brushed her face, tickling her nose and she sneezed.
- Rolling and stumbling, they fell off the table, sneezing terribly.
- He'll start sneezing, and that will turn to wheezing, and that will turn to coughing.
noun sniːzsniz An act or the sound of sneezing. he stopped a sudden sneeze Example sentencesExamples - How often have you told your children to wash their hands before dinner, after they cover a sneeze, or after they go to the bathroom?
- When you have a cold, you usually feel tired and have a sneeze, cough, and runny nose.
- Just then, from the sleeping alcove, came the unmistakable sound of sneezes.
- Suddenly, more sounds of sneezes reached my ears as Angela and Sara pounded into my room, both their noses tinged slightly pink and twitching, rabbit-like.
- Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
- Unlike some people, I can't entirely stop my sneezes from coming when they invade my nose.
- Then, if the original bone mass in one's teen years was low, a slip on the ice, a hug, or even a sneeze can cause a fracture.
- With regular flu, a single sneeze ejects millions of tiny viruses into the air.
- As he spoke, he sprinkled something on her nose, making her sneeze.
- These may become airborne when the person sneezes, coughs, or laughs.
- These drops are expelled when the infected person talks, laughs, sneezes, or coughs.
- The slightest sound, even a sneeze or the creaking of her basket woke her up.
- The refrigerator in his new flat has the sound of a sneeze when it comes on.
- If the vaccinee sneezes after administration, the dose should not be repeated.
- What is the best way for scrub personnel to handle a sneeze during a surgical procedure?
- The sound of the sneeze seemed to break everyone else out of their concentration as everyone else was staring at their direction.
- It was a mellow sneeze from a nose at peace with itself, contented as the coo of a pigeon.
- He took in deep breaths of air, which sound like the start of a sneeze.
- However, I had barely taken two steps when I heard the unmistakable sound of a sneeze behind me.
- A runny nose, a sneeze, and some mucus in the eyes might be all that signals the disease's arrival.
Phrases informal Not to be rejected without careful consideration; worth having or taking into account. a saving of £550 was not to be sneezed at Example sentencesExamples - Over a gig that lasted a good two and a half hours - not to be sneezed at in this day and age - about two thirds of his set consisted of the new material that was the purported reason for this mini-tour in the first place.
- Fuel consumption figures for the combined cycle are a healthy 49 mpg - not to be sneezed at, especially with ever-increasing petrol prices.
- I'm not prejudging the result of the investigation but £70,000 is not to be sneezed at for them.
- This cost is not to be sneezed at and can be as much as 3,5% of the total value of your estate.
- The company is expected to grow profits by 17% in 2004, which in a low-growth economy is not to be sneezed at.
- Finally, it protects against the state reneging on its promises which, given the history of pensions, is not to be sneezed at.
- This extra 15% is certainly not to be sneezed at.
- Of course, the conductor's role is not to be sneezed at here.
- It also accounts for about 20% of industrial employment, which is not to be sneezed at given the strong presence of multinationals in the sector.
- The 15,000 pound prize awarded to the laureate is not to be sneezed at but the chance of working with the London Symphony Orchestra for a year is to dream of.
Synonyms worth having, considerable, substantial, sizeable, fairly large, largish, biggish, significant fairly good, passable, reasonable, moderately good, not bad, worth taking into account informal OK
Derivatives noun The word has spread among the sneezers and opinion leaders who care. Example sentencesExamples - Always begin by infecting your core audience of sneezers.
- Avoid close contact, especially with sneezers or coughers.
- You don't want to bracket yourself down there, so point your sneezer at the camera and smile.
- The goal is to help organizations launch great products by bringing them directly to the sneezers who can spread the word.
adjectivesneeziest, sneezier There are some sensible ways to get over a miserable, runny, achy-breaky, head-full-of-gunge, coughy, sneezy, won't-go-away cold, and I do not recommend this as one of them. Example sentencesExamples - I'm either having some kind of major allergy attack or coming down with an extremely sneezy cold, so in between constant sneezing and antihistamine-induced drowsiness, I'm good for very little right now.
- Today, I woke up sneezy, as though a cold is coming on, or perhaps allergies.
- Common symptoms include an itchy, runny, sneezy, or stuffy nose and itchy eyes.
- Allergies make people dopey and sleepy as well as sneezy.
Origin Middle English: apparently an alteration of Middle English fnese due to misreading or misprinting (after initial fn- had become unfamiliar), later adopted because it sounded appropriate. When we get a cold we should really start fneezing rather than sneezing. This is because the word comes from medieval English fnese. People were not used to seeing the fn- combination at the beginning of a word by then, and someone must have mistaken f for the long medieval s, which looked like an f without a cross bar, and written it down as sn- instead.
Rhymes Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, please, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, Sinhalese, sleaze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, valise, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze Definition of sneeze in US English: sneezeverbsnēzsniz [no object]Make a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth due to irritation of one's nostrils. the smoke made her sneeze Example sentencesExamples - She sneezed, then held her breath for a few seconds in case the noise had betrayed her to anyone.
- And then Wendy sneezed, she sneezed so forcefully that the door trembled slightly under her fingers.
- My head is starting to feel like it's going to explode and I'm sneezing like crazy.
- Their feathers brushed her face, tickling her nose and she sneezed.
- Everyone is sneezing and very few people can breathe properly.
- The same pressure may cause you to leak urine when sneezing, coughing or laughing.
- Rolling and stumbling, they fell off the table, sneezing terribly.
- The flu virus is usually spread in the small droplets of saliva coughed or sneezed into the atmosphere by an infected person.
- He'll start sneezing, and that will turn to wheezing, and that will turn to coughing.
- There were feathers under her nose and they tickled so she sneezed again.
- Her nose twitched, then she sneezed and opened her eyes and lay there, blinking contentedly in the morning light.
- I stood up quickly and sneezed as a floating dog hair fell into my nose.
- She'd give you detention for sneezing in her class, coughing or even loud breathing.
- I tried to keep up with him, sneezing and trying to catch my breath and calm my heart.
- The horse had an allergic reaction and began sneezing uncontrollably with me on his back.
- She sighed and stood up, then her nose started to curl up as she sneezed and coughed.
- The strange smell of smoke wafted up her nostrils and she sneezed.
- Spread by virus-infected droplets that are coughed or sneezed into the air, the flu is contagious.
- Colds typically spread through infected respiratory droplets coughed or sneezed into the air.
- The paper advised parents to show children how to cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.
nounsnēzsniz An act or the sound of expelling air from the nose in a sneeze. he stopped a sudden sneeze Example sentencesExamples - When you have a cold, you usually feel tired and have a sneeze, cough, and runny nose.
- Suddenly, more sounds of sneezes reached my ears as Angela and Sara pounded into my room, both their noses tinged slightly pink and twitching, rabbit-like.
- How often have you told your children to wash their hands before dinner, after they cover a sneeze, or after they go to the bathroom?
- Then, if the original bone mass in one's teen years was low, a slip on the ice, a hug, or even a sneeze can cause a fracture.
- With regular flu, a single sneeze ejects millions of tiny viruses into the air.
- Unlike some people, I can't entirely stop my sneezes from coming when they invade my nose.
- As he spoke, he sprinkled something on her nose, making her sneeze.
- These drops are expelled when the infected person talks, laughs, sneezes, or coughs.
- A runny nose, a sneeze, and some mucus in the eyes might be all that signals the disease's arrival.
- It was a mellow sneeze from a nose at peace with itself, contented as the coo of a pigeon.
- He took in deep breaths of air, which sound like the start of a sneeze.
- Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
- These may become airborne when the person sneezes, coughs, or laughs.
- Just then, from the sleeping alcove, came the unmistakable sound of sneezes.
- The slightest sound, even a sneeze or the creaking of her basket woke her up.
- However, I had barely taken two steps when I heard the unmistakable sound of a sneeze behind me.
- The refrigerator in his new flat has the sound of a sneeze when it comes on.
- If the vaccinee sneezes after administration, the dose should not be repeated.
- What is the best way for scrub personnel to handle a sneeze during a surgical procedure?
- The sound of the sneeze seemed to break everyone else out of their concentration as everyone else was staring at their direction.
Phrases informal Not to be rejected without careful consideration; worth having or taking into account. a saving of $550 was not to be sneezed at Example sentencesExamples - It also accounts for about 20% of industrial employment, which is not to be sneezed at given the strong presence of multinationals in the sector.
- Finally, it protects against the state reneging on its promises which, given the history of pensions, is not to be sneezed at.
- The company is expected to grow profits by 17% in 2004, which in a low-growth economy is not to be sneezed at.
- This cost is not to be sneezed at and can be as much as 3,5% of the total value of your estate.
- Fuel consumption figures for the combined cycle are a healthy 49 mpg - not to be sneezed at, especially with ever-increasing petrol prices.
- I'm not prejudging the result of the investigation but £70,000 is not to be sneezed at for them.
- Over a gig that lasted a good two and a half hours - not to be sneezed at in this day and age - about two thirds of his set consisted of the new material that was the purported reason for this mini-tour in the first place.
- This extra 15% is certainly not to be sneezed at.
- Of course, the conductor's role is not to be sneezed at here.
- The 15,000 pound prize awarded to the laureate is not to be sneezed at but the chance of working with the London Symphony Orchestra for a year is to dream of.
Synonyms worth having, considerable, substantial, sizeable, fairly large, largish, biggish, significant
Origin Middle English: apparently an alteration of Middle English fnese due to misreading or misprinting (after initial fn- had become unfamiliar), later adopted because it sounded appropriate. |