broken wind

1. 1.

   a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks

   Synonymsheaves

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about broken wind

What does broken wind mean?

broken wind means "a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks".

What is another word for broken wind?

Close synonyms include heaves. 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 broken wind a common word?

broken 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.