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tailwinding

tailwinding is the present participle of tailwind.

Meaning of tailwind

Verb

tailwind (third-person singular simple present tailwinds, present participle tailwinding, simple past and past participle tailwinded)

  1. Of a wind, to blow on a windmill or wind turbine in such a way that wind pressure is exerted on the wrong side of the sail or turbine assembly.

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Questions about tailwinding

What is tailwinding the present participle of?
Tailwinding is the present participle of tailwind.

Words near tailwinding in the dictionary

  1. tailwheels
  2. tailwhip
  3. tailwhips
  4. tailwind
  5. tailwinded
  6. tailwinding
  7. tailwinds
  8. tailwise
  9. tailye
  10. tailyes
  11. tailzee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailwinding (page history and authors); tailwind (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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