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BREATHALYSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does breathalyse mean?
• BREATHALYSE (verb)
The verb BREATHALYSE has 1 sense:
1. test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer
Familiarity information: BREATHALYSE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they breathalyse
... he / she / it breathalyses

Past simple: breathalysed

Past participle: breathalysed

-ing form: breathalysing





Past simple: breathalysed


Past participle: breathalysed


-ing form: breathalysing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
breathalyse; breathalyze
Hypernyms (to "breathalyse" is one way to...):
check (make an examination or investigation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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