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getting wind

getting wind is the present participle and gerund of get wind.

Meaning of get wind

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.
    Synonyms:
    take wind

Questions about getting wind

What is getting wind the present participle and gerund of?
Getting wind is the present participle and gerund of get wind.

Words near getting wind in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: getting wind (page history and authors); get wind (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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