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sneeze

From Wiktionary
sneeze is on the Basic English 850 List.
snake - sneeze - snow

Pronunciation

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Verb

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Plain form
sneeze

Third-person singular
sneezes

Past tense
sneezed

Past participle
sneezed

Present participle
sneezing

A woman sneezing
  1. (intransitive) If you sneeze, a feeling in your nose makes you suddenly blow air out of your nose and mouth.
    He sneezed until his nose was red.
    You'll give everyone your cold coughing and sneezing like that.

Noun

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Singular
sneeze

Plural
sneezes

  1. (countable) A sneeze, is a sudden blowing of air out of your nose and mouth because of a feeling in your nose.
    She held her finger under her nose to stop a sneeze.