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catch wind of

catch wind of is the alternative form of get wind of.

Meaning of get wind of

Verb

get wind of (third-person singular simple present gets wind of, present participle getting wind of, simple past got wind of, past participle (UK) got wind of or (US) gotten wind of)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To hear about; to learn of, especially with respect to facts intended to have been kept confidential or secret.
    • [T]he secret was still a secret, except that you had got wind of it.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter LI, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC

Forms of catch wind of

third-person singular presentcatches wind of
present participlecatching wind of
past participlecaught wind of
pastcaught wind of

Questions about catch wind of

What is catch wind of the alternative form of?
Catch wind of is the alternative form of get wind of.

Words near catch wind of in the dictionary

  1. catch title
  2. catch titles
  3. catch up
  4. catch ups
  5. catch weight
  6. catch wind of
  7. catch wreck
  8. catch you later
  9. catch you on the flip side
  10. catch Z's
  11. catch'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch wind of (page history and authors); get wind of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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