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sidewinds

sidewinds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sidewind.

Meaning of sidewind

Verb

sidewind (third-person singular simple present sidewinds, present participle sidewinding, simple past and past participle sidewinded or sidewound)

  1. (intransitive) To move sideways, especially in a series of S-shaped curves.
    • The year is 1837, and the Cuyahoga is the sidewinding river separating the empire of Cleveland from the more rough-hewn frontier town of Ohio City.2020 October 6, Stephen Markley, “Pete Beatty’s ‘Cuyahoga’ Images an Ohio, and a Country, Divided”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2020

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Questions about sidewinds

What is sidewinds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sidewinds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sidewind.

Words near sidewinds in the dictionary

  1. sidewinder
  2. sidewindered
  3. sidewindering
  4. sidewinders
  5. sidewinding
  6. sidewinds
  7. sidewise
  8. sidewoman
  9. sidewomen
  10. sidework
  11. sidewound

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sidewinds (page history and authors); sidewind (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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