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PRONUNCIATION OF BREATHALYZE

breathalyze  [ˈbreθəlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BREATHALYZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Breathalyze is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb breathalyze in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BREATHALYZE

PRESENT

Present
I breathalyze
you breathalyze
he/she/it breathalyzes
we breathalyze
you breathalyze
they breathalyze
Present continuous
I am breathalyzing
you are breathalyzing
he/she/it is breathalyzing
we are breathalyzing
you are breathalyzing
they are breathalyzing
Present perfect
I have breathalyzed
you have breathalyzed
he/she/it has breathalyzed
we have breathalyzed
you have breathalyzed
they have breathalyzed
Present perfect continuous
I have been breathalyzing
you have been breathalyzing
he/she/it has been breathalyzing
we have been breathalyzing
you have been breathalyzing
they have been breathalyzing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I breathalyzed
you breathalyzed
he/she/it breathalyzed
we breathalyzed
you breathalyzed
they breathalyzed
Past continuous
I was breathalyzing
you were breathalyzing
he/she/it was breathalyzing
we were breathalyzing
you were breathalyzing
they were breathalyzing
Past perfect
I had breathalyzed
you had breathalyzed
he/she/it had breathalyzed
we had breathalyzed
you had breathalyzed
they had breathalyzed
Past perfect continuous
I had been breathalyzing
you had been breathalyzing
he/she/it had been breathalyzing
we had been breathalyzing
you had been breathalyzing
they had been breathalyzing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will breathalyze
you will breathalyze
he/she/it will breathalyze
we will breathalyze
you will breathalyze
they will breathalyze
Future continuous
I will be breathalyzing
you will be breathalyzing
he/she/it will be breathalyzing
we will be breathalyzing
you will be breathalyzing
they will be breathalyzing
Future perfect
I will have breathalyzed
you will have breathalyzed
he/she/it will have breathalyzed
we will have breathalyzed
you will have breathalyzed
they will have breathalyzed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been breathalyzing
you will have been breathalyzing
he/she/it will have been breathalyzing
we will have been breathalyzing
you will have been breathalyzing
they will have been breathalyzing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would breathalyze
you would breathalyze
he/she/it would breathalyze
we would breathalyze
you would breathalyze
they would breathalyze
Conditional continuous
I would be breathalyzing
you would be breathalyzing
he/she/it would be breathalyzing
we would be breathalyzing
you would be breathalyzing
they would be breathalyzing
Conditional perfect
I would have breathalyze
you would have breathalyze
he/she/it would have breathalyze
we would have breathalyze
you would have breathalyze
they would have breathalyze
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been breathalyzing
you would have been breathalyzing
he/she/it would have been breathalyzing
we would have been breathalyzing
you would have been breathalyzing
they would have been breathalyzing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you breathalyze
we let´s breathalyze
you breathalyze
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to breathalyze
Past participle
breathalyzed
Present Participle
breathalyzing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BREATHALYZE


analyze
ˈænəlaɪz
brutalise
ˈbruːtəlaɪz
catalyze
ˈkætəlaɪz
centralise
ˈsɛntrəlaɪz
channelise
ˈtʃænəlaɪz
channelize
ˈtʃænəlaɪz
decentralise
diːˈsentrəlaɪz
destabilise
diːˈsteɪbəlaɪz
finalise
ˈfaɪnəlaɪz
generalise
ˈdʒenrəlaɪz
hospitalise
ˈhɒspɪtəlaɪz
legalise
ˈliːɡəlaɪz
materialise
məˈtɪərɪəlaɪz
nationalise
ˈnæʃənəlaɪz
naturalise
ˈnætʃərəlaɪz
paralyze
ˈpærəlaɪz
penalise
ˈpiːnəlaɪz
psychoanalyze
ˌsaɪkəʊˈænəlaɪz
ritualized
ˈrɪtjʊəlaɪz
symbolise
ˈsɪmbəlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BREATHALYZE

breath
breath freshener
breath test
breath-test
breathability
breathable
breathalyse
Breathalyser
Breathalyzer
breatharian
breatharianism
breathe
breathe again
breathe down someone´s neck
breathe one´s last
breathed
breather
breathful
breathier
breathiest

WORDS THAT END LIKE BREATHALYZE

agryze
atmolyze
autocatalyze
autolyze
dialyze
electrolyze
hemolyze
hydrolyze
overanalyze
plasmolyze
pyrolyze

Synonyms and antonyms of breathalyze in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «breathalyze» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BREATHALYZE

Find out the translation of breathalyze to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of breathalyze from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «breathalyze» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

breathalyze
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

breathalyze
570 millions of speakers

English

breathalyze
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

breathalyze
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

breathalyze
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

breathalyze
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

breathalyze
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

breathalyze
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

breathalyze
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghidu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

blasen lassen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

breathalyze
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

breathalyze
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngapusi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

breathalyze
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

breathalyze
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

श्वास घेताना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

breathalyze
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

breathalyze
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

breathalyze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

breathalyze
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

breathalyze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

breathalyze
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

breathalyze
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

breathalyze
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

breathalyze
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of breathalyze

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BREATHALYZE»

The term «breathalyze» is used very little and occupies the 181.764 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BREATHALYZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «breathalyze» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «breathalyze» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about breathalyze

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BREATHALYZE»

Discover the use of breathalyze in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to breathalyze and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Defining Language: A Local Grammar of Definition Sentences
As an example of category (a), consider the deWnition structure typically used for verb headwords, exempliWed by: When you answer a question in a test, you give the answer to it. (p. 20, sense 7) When the police breathalyze a driver, they ask ...
Geoff Barnbrook, 2002
2
Shadow of a Man: Enter the Psyche of the Vagabond
But this project, they don't breathalyze you. They don't let you come in there all stupid and fucked up and shit. A lot of women come in there high or intoxicated, but they know how to hold their cool, you know. But they don't breathalyze you.
Steve Dawson, 2005
3
McMansion: A Ben Abbott Mystery
Breathalyze me for crissake. If you don't believe me.” He didn't believe me. He did breathalyze me, after calling an ambulance. When I passed, he wrote me a ticket for making a restricted turn. I convinced the Newbury volunteer ambulance  ...
Justin Scott, 2006
4
Pink For A Girl
themselves out in my head. I became convinced that the police officer would breathalyze Paul. And that was one test that we really didn't want to be positive. And so I practically dislocated my neck, craning to see what was going on behind me, ...
Isla McGuckin, 2006
5
Harrap's essential English Dictionary
7 (informal) You can say that someone is wasting their breath if no-one is listening to, or taking any notice of, what they are saying. breathalyze or breathalyse /'breOalaiz/ verb: breathalyzes, breathalyzing, breathalyzed The police breathalyze ...
‎1996
6
Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and Practice
1 When 2 the police 3 breathalyze 4 a driver, 5 6 they 7 ask ... stage of analysis would produce the final parsed output: hinge when subject (cotextl) the police headword breathalyze object (cotext2) 254 GEOFF BARNBROOK, JOHN SINCLAIR.
Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry, Robert L. Roseberry, 2001
7
Dictionary of English Spelling
... circumcise comprise compromise despise devise disguise excise exercise franchise improvise incise merchandise premise promise revise rise supervise surmise surprise televise Note also: analyse (US analyze) breathalyse or breathalyze ...
Martin H. Manser, 2005
8
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology
(32) a. attrition § attrit, breathalyzer § breathalyze, demerger Q demerge, emotion ~ emote, hijacker § hijack, television § televise b. affix-hopping ~ affix-hop, antecedent-government Q antecedent-govern, backformation § back-form, ...
Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, 2013
9
Let Me Kiss It Better: Elixirs for the Not So Straight and ...
It hasn't gotten to the point where I need a drinking and driving counterattack officer to Breathalyze me before I pick up the phone, but it has crossed my mind. " Officer, I've only had two highballs. Please let me phone Japan." Luckily I still have ...
Billeh Nickerson, 2002
10
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history
No consensus has been reached between the different approaches employed to achieve this goal, with researchers seeking clues to it in different ways obtaining different answers. One team attempted to breathalyze the Eocene atmosphere ...
David Beerling, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BREATHALYZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term breathalyze is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Man refused breath test because cops did not see him driving
He argued that the officers had not seen him driving, so they couldn't breathalyze him. The officers told Smith they had seen his car parked on ... «The Queensland Times, Jun 15»
2
Driving in Thailand - Information from Siam Legal
The police has the authority to stop and breathalyze drivers at any time and they are making use of this authority. When driving through ... «Chiang Rai Times, Jun 15»
3
Draperstown man ran away from police before he could be …
A Draperstown man, who suffered an anxiety attack and ran off before police could breathalyze him, has lost his licence for six months. «Mid Ulster Mail, Jun 15»
4
Everyone Wants A Marijuana Breathalyzer But No One Knows If …
Investors, state governments, employers — everyone wants a functional marijuana breathalyzer to test whether someone is high at a given ... «BuzzFeed News, May 15»
5
Mother Fights For "Milli's Law," to Honor Her Daughter
"I thought that was the case, that they would have to breathalyze you." After the accident, DNR officials say Walters passed a field sobriety test, ... «WLTX.com, May 15»
6
Driver in fatal wrong-way crash expected to face charges
Should we breathalyze everybody who orders a drink? Also, how is a bartender to know who is driving and who is not? Let's keep blame where ... «10News, May 15»
7
Hey, Bartender! Why'd You Throw Me Out of the Bar?
That doesn't mean I'm going to breathalyze you every time you order, but if I see you hitting it hard, I will ask how you're getting home. I'll even ... «Paste Magazine, May 15»
8
This McDonald's Will Breathalyze Customers to Keep Drunk People …
Instead of a burger, you'll get a little piece of paper telling you to stop drinking. A McDonald's branch in Cambridge, England will start using ... «Eater, May 15»
9
2015 NFL Draft: 5 things to know about Buffalo Bills' pick Ronald …
Williams only got a traffic ticket as a result, and according to the New York Times, the police didn't breathalyze Williams or ask the two players ... «Syracuse.com, May 15»
10
Secret Service chief: No gate crash, but late reporting 'unacceptable'
A senior supervisor on the scene also reportedly overruled another agent who wanted to breathalyze the agents in the vehicle, according to the ... «CNN, Mar 15»

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