breeze

About 5.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A light, gentle wind.

   The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.

2. noun Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

   After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.

3. noun Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
4. noun An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.

   The discovery produced a breeze.

5. noun A brief workout for a racehorse.
6. verb To move casually, in a carefree manner.
7. verb To blow gently.
8. verb To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.

Similar words

zephyr air gentle wind downwind vent draft airstream wind draught tide

Often followed by

and from that was of blew blowing to in

Word family

breezed breezeless breezes breezing