breezenoun
uk/briːz/us/briːz/breeze noun (WIND)
B1 [ C ] a light and pleasant wind:
a warm/cool breeze
She let the gentle breeze cool her face.
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- Flags flapped in the breeze above their tents.
- There's quite a fresh breeze today.
- The breeze rippled the water.
- A light breeze stirred the leaves lying on the path.
- The sudden breeze made the candles blow out.
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Wind & winds
- airstream
- anemometer
- blast
- choppy
- drafty
- dust devil
- El Niño
- eolian
- hurricane
- jet stream
- northeast
- prevailing
- sigh
- southeasterly
- southerly
- the Beaufort scale
- tornado
- westerly
- wind gauge
- windsock
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breeze noun (SOMETHING EASY)
[ S ] informal something that is easy to achieve, often unexpectedly:
You won't have any problems with the entrance test - it's an absolute breeze.
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Easiness and simplicity
- (as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a log idiom
- at the push of a button idiom
- at the stroke of a pen idiom
- be (all) downhill idiom
- be child's play idiom
- convincing
- foolproof
- friendly
- gift
- gimme
- give/hand sth to sb on a (silver) platter idiom
- painless
- rocket science
- sail
- sail through (sth)
- sb could do sth with one arm/hand tied behind his/her back idiom
- self-explanatory
- semi-skilled
- simple
- sweat
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breezeverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/briːz/us/briːz/breeze verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] (WALK)
to walk somewhere quickly and confidently, without worry or embarrassment:
She just breezed in as if she'd only been away a day instead of a year.
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Moving firmly on foot
- clump
- flounce
- goose step
- lope
- march
- not break your stride idiom
- pace
- parade
- prance
- quick march! idiom
- sashay
- stalk
- stamp
- stomp
- stride
- strut
- surefooted
- swagger
- troop
- waltz
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breeze verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] (DO EASILY)
informal to easily complete or win something:
She breezed through the song as though she'd been singing it for years.
mainly US He breezed to victory with 78 percent of the vote.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Easiness and simplicity
- (as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a log idiom
- at the push of a button idiom
- at the stroke of a pen idiom
- be (all) downhill idiom
- be child's play idiom
- convincing
- foolproof
- friendly
- gift
- gimme
- give/hand sth to sb on a (silver) platter idiom
- painless
- rocket science
- sail
- sail through (sth)
- sb could do sth with one arm/hand tied behind his/her back idiom
- self-explanatory
- semi-skilled
- simple
- sweat
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