sneeze

CEFRB1

/sniːz/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    To force air suddenly through your nose and mouth.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.

Examples

  • Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.

  • I think I'm gonna sneeze. Give me a tissue.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An act of sneezing.

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.

  2. To expel air as if the nose were irritated.

More examples

In context

  • Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.

  • To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fnēosan (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”). Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), cognate with Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”), Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”). See neeze. It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ſn- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is re...