wind

Pronunciation

noun

• enPR: wĭnd, IPA ^(key): /ˈwɪnd/
• SAMPA: /wInd/

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verb

• enPR: wīnd, IPA ^(key): /waɪnd/
• SAMPA: /waInd/

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• Homophones: whined, wined (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

Singular wind

Plural winds

Trees moving in the wind

1. (countable & uncountable) Wind is the moving air.

   The wind blows so strongly now that a person's hair goes in the person's face.

Verb

Plain form wind

Third-person singular winds

Past tense wound

Past participle wound

Present participle winding

a movie of winding string

1. If you wind something you wrap it around and make it tight.

   You need to wind the string around the stick.

2. If you wind a clock or watch you tighten a spring inside it. This is done by turning knob. The spring powers the clock or watch as it unwinds (stops being tight).
3. If something winds it twists around in different directions.

   The road winds for miles.

4. If something winds down, it runs out of power and gets slower. (Like a watch that is unwinding.)
5. How something winds up is how it becomes in the end or after something happens.

   I wound up lost after I made the wrong turn.

Related words

• rewind