wind

1. 1.

   to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

   “the river winds through the hills”

   “the path meanders through the vineyards”

   “sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body”

   Synonymsweavethreadmeanderwander

   Broadertravel

   Narrowersnake
2. 2.

   extend in curves and turns

   “The road winds around the lake”

   “the path twisted through the forest”

   Synonymstwistcurve

   Broaderbe

   Narrowercircumvolutespiralsnake
3. 3.

   arrange or or coil around

   “roll your hair around your finger”

   “Twine the thread around the spool”

   “She wrapped her arms around the child”

   Synonymswraprolltwine

   Antonymsunwind

   Broadermove

   Narrowerspoolreelball
4. 4.

   catch the scent of; get wind of

   “The dog nosed out the drugs”

   Synonymsscentnose

   Broadersmell
5. 5.

   coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

   “wind your watch”

   Synonymswind up

   Broadertighten

   Narrowerrewind
6. 6.

   form into a wreath

   Synonymswreathe

   Broaderintertwine
7. 7.

   raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

   “hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car”

   Synonymshoistlift

   Broaderraise

   Narrowertrice

Other forms of wind

plural

winds·

past tense or participle

wound

present participle

winding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wind

What does wind mean?

wind means "air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure". That is the primary sense; the word has 15 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wind?

wind has 1 syllable: wind. In IPA it is /ˈwaɪnd/.

What is another word for wind?

Close synonyms include air current, current of air, malarkey, malarky, idle words. 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.

What is the opposite of wind?

The recorded antonyms are unwind.

Is wind a common word?

wind is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wind?

1 word rhymes with wind. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.