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wind-breaking

wind-breaking is the present participle and gerund of wind-break.

Meaning of wind-break

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

Questions about wind-breaking

What is wind-breaking the present participle and gerund of?
Wind-breaking is the present participle and gerund of wind-break.

Words near wind-breaking in the dictionary

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

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