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Verb: breathalyze  'bre-thu,lIz
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: breathalyse)
  1. Test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer
    "The police can't set up road-blocks near public houses at closing time, and stop and breathalyze any motorist leaving the pub";
    - breathalyse [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: breathalyzed, breathalyzing, breathalyzes

Type of: check

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