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sneeze


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sneeze  \Sneeze\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sneezed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Sneezing}.]  [OE.  snesen  of  uncertain  origin;  cf  D.  snuse 
  to  sniff,  E.  neese,  and  AS  fne['o]san.] 
  To  emit  air,  chiefly  through  the  nose,  audibly  and  violently, 
  by  a  kind  of  involuntary  convulsive  force,  occasioned  by 
  irritation  of  the  inner  membrane  of  the  nose. 
 
  {Not  to  be  sneezed  at},  not  to  be  despised  or  contemned;  not 
  to  be  treated  lightly.  [Colloq.]  ``He  had  to  do  with  old 
  women  who  were  not  to  be  sneezed  at.''  --Prof.  Wilson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sneeze  \Sneeze\,  n. 
  A  sudden  and  violent  ejection  of  air  with  an  audible  sound, 
  chiefly  through  the  nose. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sneeze 
  n  :  a  symptom  consisting  of  the  involuntary  expulsion  of  air 
  from  the  nose  [syn:  {sneezing},  {sternutation}] 
  v  :  exhale  spasmodically,  as  when  an  irritant  entered  one's 
  nose;  "Pepper  makes  me  sneeze" 




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