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wind

noun

  1. moving air, particularly outdoors
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verb

  1. rotate, often so as to increase tension
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verb

  1. to cause to become breathless
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /waɪnd/

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind. * Also as a German surname, variant of Wendt.

  1. A surname

noun

Etymology: From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.

  1. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.

  1. To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.

    to wind thread on a spool or into a ball

    Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.

  2. To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.

    Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.

  3. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

    Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.

  4. To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.

    Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.

    He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which[…]winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.

  5. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.

    to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus

    Gifts blind the vviſe, and bribes do pleaſe, / And vvinde all other witneſſes: […]

  6. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

    You have contrived[…]to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.

    'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse

  7. To cover or surround with something coiled about.

    to wind a rope with twine

  8. To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.

    Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.

  9. To turn (a ship) around, end for end.