Meaning

(intransitive, medicine) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, medicine) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
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.
4. An act of sneezing.

Example Sentences

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.

When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy.

I sneezed a big sneeze. It was so big I hit my nose on the sidewalk. Bow-ow. There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of. And it wasn't Muffet's rotten soup odor, either. That was actually kind of delicious.

“Okay,”he said, and sneezed a large drop of pinkish goop. “But you better have a lot to eat! I'll race you upstairs!” Wilmer shook his head. Sherman's hyper energy level seemed to have increased, and that was saying a lot.

Toothless sneezed a large amount of dragon snot right in Hiccup's face.

Jared's hay fever gives him terrible sneezes.

Word Forms

• sneezes
• sneezing
• sneezed
• snoze
• snozen

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