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Definition of Get wind
1. Verb. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally. "They get wind that there was a traffic accident "; "I see that you have been promoted"
Specialized synonyms: Get The Goods, Wise Up, Catch, Trip Up, Ascertain, Discover, Find
Related verbs: Find, See, Witness
Derivative terms: Discovery, Discovery, Discovery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Wind
Literary usage of Get wind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"Meditate all this in the profoundest silence ; if our scheme get wind before the
time the man l will be "gey ill to deal wi."z X. — To his WIFE, Edinburgh. ..."
2. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"To take wind, to get wind (to be divulged), être éventé To get wind of a To get
the wind of a person, avoir le thing, avoir vent de quelque chose. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"To get Wind, to become known ; leak out. I don't know what's the reason, ...
TO get Wind Of, to learn as by accident: said of something intended to be ..."
4. Dictionary of English and French Idioms: Illustrating, by Phrases and by Jean Roemer (1853)
"To take wind, to get wind (to be divulged), être éventé To get wind of a To get
the wind of a person, avoir le tiling, ..."
5. A Lexicon, English and Turkish: Shewing, in Turkish, the Literal, Incidental by James William Redhouse (1861)
"... To get wind,» ... ul> : ^.y. y- To get wind of a thing,» : To sail before the
wind,£ : To sail by the w¡nd,£ ..."
6. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"To be published, &c., to become public, to go forth, to get abroad, to get wind,
to take air, to get afloat, to acquire currency, to spread, ..."
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