break wind

1. 1.

   expel intestinal gases through the anus

   Synonymsfart

   Broaderact involuntarily

Questions about break wind

What does break wind mean?

break wind means "expel intestinal gases through the anus".

What is another word for break wind?

Close synonyms include fart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is break wind a common word?

break wind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.