SNEEZE, verb intransitive To emit air through the nose audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irriatation of the inner membrance of the nose. Thus snuff or any thing that tickles the nose, makes one sneeze SNEEZE, noun A sudden and violent ejection of air through the nose with an audible sound.
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