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1. 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"
   - air current, current of air
    
2. A tendency or force that influences events
   "the winds of change"
    
3. Breath
   "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
    
4. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
   "that's a lot of wind"
   - malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
    
5. An indication of potential opportunity
   - tip, lead, steer, confidential information, hint
    
6. A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
   - wind instrument
    
7. A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
   - flatus, breaking wind

1. To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
   "the river winds through the hills"
   - weave, thread, meander, wander
    
2. Arrange or coil around
   - wrap, roll, twine
    
3. Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
   "wind your watch"
   - wind up
    
4. Form into a wreath
   - wreathe
    
5. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   - hoist, lift

1. Catch the scent of; get wind of
   - scent, nose
    
2. Extend in curves and turns
   - twist, curve

1. The act of winding or twisting
   - winding, twist

Sounds like: whined, wined

Derived forms: wound, winds, winding

See also: winder, windy

Type of: atmospheric condition, be, breathing out, bring up, conditions, counsel, counseling [US], counselling [Brit, Cdn], direction, displace, elevate, enlace, entwine, exhalation, expiration, fasten, get up, go, guidance, inborn reflex, influence, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, instrument, interlace, intertwine, lace, lift, locomote, move, musical instrument, physiological reaction, raise, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, rotary motion, rotation, smell, talk, talking, tighten, travel, twine, unconditioned reflex, weather, weather condition

Antonym: unwind

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