breathalyse

Questions about breathalyse

What does breathalyse mean?

breathalyse means "test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer".

How many syllables are in breathalyse?

breathalyse has 4 syllables: bre-a-tha-lyse. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for breathalyse?

Close synonyms include breathalyze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breathalyse a common word?

breathalyse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.