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Antonyms for wind
wɪnd, Literary waɪnd; wɪndwind
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wind, air current, current of airnoun
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
"trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
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wind off, unroll, unwindSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, winding, twist, current of air, tip, breaking wind, nothingness, farting, flatus, malarky, jazz, air current, confidential information, steer, malarkey, fart, idle wordswindnoun
a tendency or force that influences events
"the winds of change"
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wind off, unwind, unrollSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, winding, twist, current of air, tip, breaking wind, nothingness, farting, flatus, malarky, jazz, air current, confidential information, steer, malarkey, fart, idle wordswindnoun
breath
"the collision knocked the wind out of him"
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wind off, unroll, unwindSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, winding, twist, current of air, tip, breaking wind, nothingness, farting, flatus, malarky, jazz, air current, confidential information, steer, malarkey, fart, idle wordswind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingnessnoun
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
"that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
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wind off, unwind, unrollSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, winding, twist, current of air, tip, nullity, breaking wind, nothingness, farting, flatus, nihility, malarky, jazz, air current, confidential information, void, steer, malarkey, fart, idle wordstip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hintnoun
an indication of potential opportunity
"he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
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unwind, wind off, unrollSynonyms:
hint, touch, flatus, mite, farting, lead-in, crest, atomic number 82, nothingness, pinch, crown, suggestion, jot, confidential information, bakshis, peak, leading, breaking wind, soupcon, bullock, point, pourboire, tether, lead, wind instrument, lead story, trail, clue, baksheesh, lede, winding, steer, tinge, leash, gratuity, fart, star, malarkey, idle words, malarky, bakshish, jazz, jumper cable, jumper lead, air current, booster cable, intimation, principal, current of air, top, trace, pencil lead, breath, tip, speck, summit, backsheesh, track, spark advance, twistwind instrument, windnoun
a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
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wind off, unwind, unrollSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, winding, twist, current of air, tip, breaking wind, nothingness, farting, flatus, steer, malarky, jazz, air current, confidential information, malarkey, fart, idle wordsfart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking windnoun
a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
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unroll, unwind, wind offSynonyms:
lead, hint, wind instrument, nothingness, twist, current of air, tip, fart, breaking wind, air current, farting, flatus, winding, malarky, confidential information, steer, malarkey, jazz, idle wordswind, winding, twistverb
the act of winding or twisting
"he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
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unwind, unroll, wind offSynonyms:
spin, hint, turn, flatus, farting, nothingness, idle words, confidential information, lead, whirl, kink, breaking wind, bend, braid, wind instrument, wrench, crook, turn of events, tress, pull, winding, plait, steer, fart, malarky, construction, malarkey, jazz, current of air, air current, device, gimmick, twisting, twirl, twist, tip, eddyweave, wind, thread, meander, wanderverb
to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
"the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
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unroll, wind off, unwindSynonyms:
rove, vagabond, meander, nose, hoist, thread, wrap, twist, range, stray, string, roll, lift, twine, scent, cast, cheat, wreathe, wander, tissue, divagate, curve, digress, swan, wind up, tramp, cheat on, interweave, draw, betray, ramble, cuckold, drift, waver, weave, roamwind, twist, curveverb
extend in curves and turns
"The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
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wind off, unwind, unrollSynonyms:
bend, wriggle, wrick, deform, nose, meander, hoist, thread, arch, twist, veer, rick, kink, worm, roll, lift, flex, convolute, writhe, scent, wrench, wind up, wrap, turn, sheer, wander, sophisticate, trend, sprain, curve, swerve, slew, twist around, twine, distort, wrestle, wreathe, arc, squirm, slue, crook, weave, pervert, curl, cutwind, wrap, roll, twineverb
arrange or or coil around
"roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
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unroll, wind off, unwindSynonyms:
vagabond, intertwine, meander, nose, hoist, thread, wrap, twist, range, interlace, stray, rove, wave, swan, roll, lift, twine, scent, wind up, flap, enfold, wander, hustle, entwine, wrap up, cast, enwrap, curve, distort, lace, pluck, revolve, roll up, envelop, roll out, wreathe, turn over, tramp, undulate, ramble, drift, weave, seethe, enclose, enlace, roam, wheelscent, nose, windverb
catch the scent of; get wind of
"The dog nosed out the drugs"
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unwind, wind off, unrollSynonyms:
wrap, lift, horn in, wind up, meander, hoist, odorize, pry, twist, nuzzle, odourise, wreathe, nose, roll, wander, intrude, curve, perfume, scent, thread, weave, twine, pokewind, wind upverb
coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
"wind your watch"
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wind off, unroll, unwindSynonyms:
wrap, turn on, wind up, finish up, meander, finish, fetch up, arouse, twist, excite, roll, wreathe, nose, wander, curve, lift, scent, thread, sex, weave, twine, land up, hoist, end upwreathe, windverb
form into a wreath
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unroll, unwind, wind offSynonyms:
hoist, twist, wrap, nose, wreathe, roll, weave, wind up, twine, meander, wander, thread, scent, curve, lifthoist, lift, windverb
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
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wind off, unroll, unwindSynonyms:
nose, hook, rise, nobble, meander, cabbage, vacate, hoist, thread, wrap, twist, annul, elevate, uprise, lift, go up, roll, pinch, twine, plagiarize, arise, abstract, rescind, come up, bring up, plagiarise, pilfer, filch, wander, purloin, snarf, overturn, repeal, weave, curve, raise, scent, sneak, get up, run up, wind up, move up, wreathe, swipe, reverse, airlift, revoke, rear, face-lift, rustle, countermand
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
windnoun
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breeze, zephyr, draught, gale, squall, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, tempest, whirlwind, flurry, simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solanoAssociated words:
anemology, anemography, anemometry, typhon, æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemographwindnoun
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flatulenceAssociated words:
belch, belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitiswindverb
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coil, twine, twist, wreathe, crook, meander, curve, deviate, sinuate, bend
How to use wind in a sentence?
A decade ago, there were zero major solar power projects on public lands. Today, the Bureau of Land Management has approved 11,000 megawatts of renewable wind, solar, and geothermal projects?, but to make a real dent in the problem, we're going to need a whole lot more.
Climatologically, what ends your hurricane season is too much wind shear, so La Niña tends to prolong the hurricane season since it tends to reduce shear, of course, last year is an example of La Niña prolonging the season... on steroids !
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
Wind just kind of swept through the smokehouse a lot more than we’re used to and carried an ember from a cooker and caught a wall on fire, it went up real quick.
Wind chills will be getting colder and colder as the day goes on.
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