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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

Forms of wind break

pluralwind breaks

Questions about wind break

What is wind break the alternative form of?
Wind break is the alternative form of windbreak.

Words near wind break in the dictionary

  1. wind back the clock
  2. wind band
  3. wind bands
  4. wind blocker
  5. wind blockers
  6. wind break
  7. wind breaker
  8. wind breakers
  9. wind breaks
  10. wind burial
  11. wind burials

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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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