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get wind of

get wind of verb: to hear about; to learn of, especially with respect to facts intended to have been kept confidential or secret.

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
    • "It's no easy matter," said Inspector Weymouth, "to patrol the vicinity of John Ki's Joy-Shop without their getting wind of it."1917, Sax Rohmer, chapter 7, in The Hand of Fu-Manchu

get wind of meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

get wind of in Bengali

কোনো কিছু সম্পর্কে শোনা, কোনো বিষয়ে জানা

get wind of in Malayalam

learn of, hear about, hear of
അനിഷ്ടമായതിനെക്കുറച്ചു വിവരം കിട്ടുക, കേട്ടറിയുക, പറഞ്ഞു കേൾക്കുക, വിവരമറിയുക, ഗന്ധം ലഭിക്കുക, വിവരം ലഭിക്കുക

get wind of in Kannada

ಗಾಳಿಸುದ್ದಿ ಕೇಳು

Forms of get wind of

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

Questions about get wind of

What does get wind of mean?
Get wind of means to hear about; to learn of, especially with respect to facts intended to have been kept confidential or secret.
What is get wind of in Bengali?
Get wind of in Bengali is কোনো কিছু সম্পর্কে শোনা, কোনো বিষয়ে জানা. See Get wind of meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is get wind of?
Get wind of is a verb.
What is the past tense of get wind of?
The past tense of get wind of is got wind of.

Words near get wind of in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: get wind of (page history and authors); get wind of (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); get wind of (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); get wind of (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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