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get wind

get wind verb: to be divulged; to become common knowledge.

Verb

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

  1. (dated, idiomatic, intransitive) To be divulged; to become common knowledge.
    • The story soon got wind.
    • The Algonquins held a council and resolved to appease the spirit of the net by marrying him to two such very young girls that he could have no complaint on that score for the future. They did so, and the fishing turned out all that could be wished. The thing got wind among their neighbors the...1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 147
    Synonyms:
    take wind

Synonyms of get wind

Forms of get wind

third-person singular presentgets wind
present participlegetting wind
pastgot wind
past participle UKgot wind
past participle USgotten wind

Questions about get wind

What does get wind mean?
Get wind means to be divulged; to become common knowledge.
What part of speech is get wind?
Get wind is a verb.
What is the past tense of get wind?
The past tense of get wind is got wind.

Words near get wind in the dictionary

  1. get well
  2. get well soon
  3. get wet
  4. get what one asked for
  5. get what's coming to one
  6. get wind
  7. get wind in one's jaws
  8. get wind of
  9. get wise
  10. get with
  11. get with child

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