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   Breeze

   /brēz/

   

   noun

   • 1. a gentle wind: "tantalizing cooking smells wafted on the evening breeze" Similar gentle windbreath of windpuff of aircurrent of airflurry of airgustinformal:blowtechnical:light airliterary:zephyrrare:cat's paw
   • ▪ a wind of force 2 to 6 on the Beaufort scale (4–27 knots or 4.5-31 mph).
   • 2. a thing that is easy to do or accomplish: informal "traveling through London was a breeze" Similar easy taskeasy jobchild's playnothingfive-finger exercisegiftwalkoversinecureinformal:doddlewalk in the parkpiece of cakepicnicmoney for old ropemoney for jamcinchsitterkids' stuffcushy job/numberdosscakewalkpushoverduck soupsnapbludgesnacka piece of old tackievulgar slang:a piece of pissdated:snip

   verb

   • 1. come or go in a casual or lighthearted manner: informal "I breezed in as if nothing were wrong"
   • ▪ deal with something with apparently casual ease: informal "the computer has the power to breeze through huge documents"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: probably from Old Spanish and Portuguese briza ‘NE wind’ (the original sense in English).

   Scrabble Points: 17

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