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  • verb to test the alcohol content of someone's blood by means of a breathalyzer.

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  • verb To estimate the alcohol content of a person's blood by using a breathalyzer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer

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Examples

  • Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.

    Fires Rage After London Prisoners Riot AP 2011

  • Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.

    Fires Rage After London Prisoners Riot AP 2011

  • And I-- I love the idea of having breathalyzers at the bar, and you have to breathalyze on your way out.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2009 2009

  • Prisons minister Crispin Blunt said the riot began when guards tried to breathalyze prisoners suspected of drinking alcohol smuggled into the jail.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Prisons minister Crispin Blunt said the riot began when guards tried to breathalyze prisoners suspected of drinking alcohol smuggled into the jail.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Staff have been running around trying to breathalyze prisoners.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • That is why I breathalyze all pharmacy techs and surgeons before I let them work.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • That is unless you are assuming that cops are going to breathalyze / field test every single driver that goes through a checkpoint and ask them for "Ze Papers!!!".

    BlueOregon 2009

  • That is unless you are assuming that cops are going to breathalyze / field test every single driver that goes through a checkpoint and ask them for "Ze Papers!!!".

    BlueOregon 2009

  • "We won't breathalyze everyone, but if we have a student who gives us a reasonable suspicion we will breathalyze that student," Hutchinson said.

    DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS 2009

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