sneeze

1. (intransitive, medicine) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.Examples: "To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve."Synonyms: neeze, sternutateintransitive

2. (intransitive) To expel air as if the nose were irritated.intransitive

3. (transitive) To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.Examples: "Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose."; "When I crossed the road, I sneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy."; "I sneezed a big sneeze. It was so big I hit my nose on the sidewalk. Bow-ow. There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of. And it wasn't Muffet's rotten soup odor, either. That was actually kind of delicious."transitive