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Exact Match:

wind

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"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

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"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"

coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"

wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"

extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"

Synonyms:

• Aqua-Lung,
• Vayu,
• Zephyr,
• Zephyrus,
• about ship,
• aerate,
• aerophone,
• air,
• air out,
• air-condition,
• air-cool,
• airify,
• allure,
• antelope,
• arch,
• arrow,
• artificial respiration,
• aspiration,
• asthmatic wheeze,
• back and fill,
• bagpipe,
• bait the hook,
• baloney,
• bay,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear to starboard,
• beat,
• beat about,
• beep,
• belch,
• bell,
• bend,
• bend back,
• bilge,
• birdlime,
• blah,
• blah-blah,
• blare,
• blast,
• blat,
• blow,
• blow a horn,
• blow the horn,
• blue darter,
• blue streak,
• bop,
• bosh,
• bow,
• box off,
• bray,
• break,
• breath,
• breath of air,
• breathing,
• bring about,
• bring round,
• broken wind,
• bugle,
• bull,
• bullshit,
• bunk,
• bunkum,
• burn out,
• burp,
• cannonball,
• cant,
• cant round,
• carillon,
• cast,
• cast about,
• catch,
• catch out,
• change course,
• change the heading,
• charge,
• circle,
• circulate,
• circumrotate,
• circumvolute,
• clarion,
• clue,
• cock,
• coil,
• come about,
• contort,
• corkscrew,
• cough,
• courser,
• crank,
• crap,
• crinkle,
• crook,
• cross-ventilate,
• cue,
• curl,
• curve,
• dart,
• debilitate,
• decoy,
• decurve,
• deflect,
• distort,
• divagate,
• do in,
• do up,
• dome,
• doodle,
• double a point,
• double reed,
• double-tongue,
• drift,
• eagle,
• electricity,
• embouchure,
• embow,
• encircle,
• enclose,
• enervate,
• enlace,
• enmesh,
• ensnare,
• ensnarl,
• entangle,
• entoil,
• entrap,
• entwine,
• envelop,
• enweb,
• err,
• eructation,
• excurse,
• exhalation,
• exhaust,
• expiration,
• express train,
• exsufflation,
• fag,
• fag out,
• fan,
• fart,
• fatigue,
• fetch about,
• fife,
• flag,
• flapdoodle,
• flash,
• flatulence,
• flatulency,
• flatuosity,
• flatus,
• flex,
• flute,
• frazzle,
• freshen,
• gas,
• gasp,
• gazelle,
• get up steam,
• gin,
• gird,
• girdle,
• go about,
• go adrift,
• go around,
• go astray,
• go round,
• greased lightning,
• greyhound,
• guff,
• gulp,
• gup,
• gybe,
• gyrate,
• gyre,
• hack,
• harass,
• hare,
• heave round,
• hiccup,
• hogwash,
• hokum,
• honk,
• hooey,
• hook,
• hook in,
• horn,
• hot air,
• hump,
• hunch,
• incurvate,
• incurve,
• indication,
• inflect,
• inhalation,
• inhalator,
• inkling,
• inspiration,
• insufflation,
• intimation,
• intort,
• inveigle,
• iron lung,
• jade,
• jet plane,
• jibe,
• jibe all standing,
• key,
• knock out,
• knock up,
• light,
• lightning,
• lime,
• lip,
• load,
• loop,
• lure,
• malarkey,
• meander,
• mercury,
• mesh,
• miss stays,
• misshape,
• moonshine,
• mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
• mouthpiece,
• naught,
• net,
• nil,
• nix,
• noose,
• notion,
• overfatigue,
• overstrain,
• overtire,
• overweary,
• oxygen mask,
• oxygen tent,
• oxygenate,
• oxygenize,
• pant,
• peal,
• pererrate,
• piffle,
• pipe,
• pirouette,
• pivot,
• ply,
• poop,
• poop out,
• poppycock,
• prime,
• prostrate,
• puff,
• put about,
• put back,
• quicksilver,
• ramble,
• recurve,
• reed,
• reflect,
• reflex,
• refresh,
• respiration,
• retroflex,
• revolve,
• rocket,
• rot,
• rotate,
• round,
• round a point,
• rove,
• sag,
• scallop,
• scared rabbit,
• scat,
• screw,
• scuba,
• serpentine,
• set,
• sheer,
• shift,
• shit,
• shot,
• shriek,
• sigh,
• slew,
• slide,
• slink,
• snake,
• snare,
• snarl,
• sneeze,
• sniff,
• sniffle,
• sniggle,
• snore,
• snoring,
• snuff,
• snuffle,
• sound,
• sound a tattoo,
• sound taps,
• spin,
• spiral,
• spread the toils,
• squeal,
• steam up,
• sternutation,
• stertor,
• straggle,
• stray,
• streak,
• streak of lightning,
• striped snake,
• suggestion,
• surround,
• suspiration,
• swag,
• swallow,
• sweep,
• swerve,
• swing,
• swing round,
• swing the stern,
• swirl,
• swivel,
• tack,
• tangle,
• telltale,
• thought,
• throw about,
• thunderbolt,
• tire,
• tire out,
• tire to death,
• tommyrot,
• tongue,
• toot,
• tooter,
• tootle,
• torrent,
• torture,
• trap,
• trip,
• tripe,
• triple-tongue,
• trumpet,
• tucker,
• turn,
• turn a pirouette,
• turn around,
• turn back,
• turn round,
• tweedle,
• twine,
• twirl,
• twist,
• twist and turn,
• use up,
• valve,
• vault,
• veer,
• ventilate,
• wamble,
• wander,
• warm up,
• warp,
• weaken,
• wear,
• wear down,
• wear on,
• wear out,
• wear ship,
• weary,
• weave,
• wheel,
• wheeze,
• whirl,
• whistle,
• whorl,
• wilt,
• wind instrument,
• wind the horn,
• wind up,
• winnow,
• worm,
• wreathe,
• wring,
• yaw