Sneezed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sneeze \Sneeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sneezed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sneezing}.] [OE. snesen; of uncertain origin; cf. D. snuse
     to sniff, E. neese, and AS. fne['o]san.]
     To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently,
     by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by
     irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.


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     {Not to be sneezed at}, not to be despised or contemned; not
        to be treated lightly. [Colloq.] "He had to do with old
        women who were not to be sneezed at." --Prof. Wilson.
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