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wind-break

wind-break is the alternative form of windbreak.

Meaning of windbreak

Noun

windbreak (plural windbreaks)

  1. A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
  2. A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
    • I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.June 1964, Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112
  3. The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
    • (see title)1995, Terry Bolin, Rosemary Stanton, Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms with Flatulence

Verb

wind-break (third-person singular simple present wind-breaks, present participle wind-breaking, simple past wind-broke, past participle wind-broken)

  1. (transitive) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
    • 'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act II, page 26
    • It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] An Empty Threat.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 65

Forms of wind-break

Noun
pluralwind-breaks
Verb
third-person singular presentwind-breaks
present participlewind-breaking
pastwind-broke
past participlewind-broken

Questions about wind-break

What does wind-break mean?
Wind-break means to break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
What is wind-break the alternative form of?
Wind-break is the alternative form of windbreak.
What part of speech is wind-break?
Wind-break is a verb.
What is the past tense of wind-break?
The past tense of wind-break is wind-broke.

Words near wind-break in the dictionary

  1. wind-bells
  2. wind-blown
  3. wind-board
  4. wind-boards
  5. wind-borne
  6. wind-break
  7. wind-breaking
  8. wind-breaks
  9. wind-broke
  10. wind-broken
  11. wind-chill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wind-break (page history and authors); windbreak (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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