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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

get wind en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (dated, idiomatic, intransitive) To be divulged; to become common knowledge.
    • The story soon got wind.
    • The Algonquins held a council and resolved to appease the spirit of the net by marrying him to two such very young girls that he could have no complaint on that score for the future. They did so, and the fishing turned out all that could be wished. The thing got wind among their neighbors the Hurons, and they adopted the custom. 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 147:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
got wind Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got wind Tense=Past lexicographic
gets wind Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
getting wind Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gotten wind Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic

Relateds

get wind of

Synonyms

take wind