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wind

English

🔊 the act of winding or twisting
“he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind”
🔊 breath
“the collision knocked the wind out of him”
🔊 empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
“that's a lot of wind”
🔊 a tendency or force that influences events
“the winds of change”
🔊 air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
“trees bent under the fierce winds”
🔊 a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
🔊 a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
🔊 an indication of potential opportunity
“he got a tip on the stock market”
🔊 coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
“wind your watch”
🔊 arrange or or coil around
“roll your hair around your finger”
🔊 extend in curves and turns
“The road winds around the lake”
🔊 form into a wreath
🔊 to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
“the river winds through the hills”
🔊 raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
“hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car”
🔊 catch the scent of
“The dog nosed out the drugs”