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gotten wind

gotten wind is the past participle 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 gotten wind

What is gotten wind the past participle of?
Gotten wind is the past participle of get wind.

Words near gotten wind in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten 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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