"breezen" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: breezens [present, singular, third-person], breezening [participle, present], breezened [participle, past], breezened [past]
Etymology: From breeze + -en. Etymology templates: {{af|en|breeze|-en|id2=inchoative}} breeze + -en Head templates: {{en-verb}} breezen (third-person singular simple present breezens, present participle breezening, simple past and past participle breezened)
  1. (rare, nonstandard, intransitive) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy Tags: intransitive, nonstandard, rare
    Sense id: en-breezen-en-verb-xuKtYBgX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "We're going to have a brush out of this, and resk it, you!\" declared Job, beating his hat against the counter inside. \"It's thick o' snow a'ready, and breezening on stiddy from out here to the s'utheast.\"",
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          "ref": "1908, Home from Sea, page 191",
          "text": "'T wa'n't so very long neither afore she was carrying consid'ble of a bone in her teeth, for quick's ever the wind really once took holt to the east'ard, it breezened up quite fast, and kept pricking on all night steady, and all next day long, till come sundown again it took three men at the hellum to gurge her along, and the sweat dreened off'n the chins of them three a-near one perfect stream!",
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        "(rare, nonstandard, intransitive) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy"
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