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throughdraught

throughdraught is the alternative form of through-draught.

Meaning of through-draught

Noun

through-draught (plural through-draughts)

  1. (UK) A draught or air current that blows across a space; cross breeze.
    • The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated.2004, Ben Pester, Through the Land of Fire: Fifty-Six South, page 231

Forms of throughdraught

pluralthroughdraughts

Questions about throughdraught

What is throughdraught the alternative form of?
Throughdraught is the alternative form of through-draught.

Words near throughdraught in the dictionary

  1. throughbores
  2. throughcare
  3. throughcomposed
  4. throughdraft
  5. throughdrafts
  6. throughdraught
  7. throughdraughts
  8. throughe
  9. throughfall
  10. throughfalls
  11. throughfare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: throughdraught (page history and authors); through-draught (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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