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slipping one's wind

slipping one's wind is the present participle and gerund of slip one's wind.

Meaning of slip one's wind

Verb

slip one's wind (third-person singular simple present slips one's wind, present participle slipping one's wind, simple past and past participle slipped one's wind)

  1. (slang) To die.
    • “Hullo!” says Troke, running to the heap of clothes, “the young un's slipped his wind!” Kirkland was dead.1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 277

Questions about slipping one's wind

What is slipping one's wind the present participle and gerund of?
Slipping one's wind is the present participle and gerund of slip one's wind.

Words near slipping one's wind in the dictionary

  1. slipping into
  2. slipping it to
  3. slipping off
  4. slipping off someone's tongue
  5. slipping one past
  6. slipping one's wind
  7. slipping out
  8. slipping someone a length
  9. slipping someone's mind
  10. slipping through
  11. slipping through someone's fingers

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