break wind


Expel intestinal gas, as in Beans always make him break wind. [Early 1500s]

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How to use break wind in a sentence

  • I was told I could have either a break-wind of boughs or a beehive hut, and on consideration I chose the latter.

  • As a break-wind a crescent-shaped wall of benzine cases was built several yards to the south.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • By that time the Hut had been further protected by a crescent of cases, erected behind the first break-wind.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • Each day, now, Webb took an approximate magnetic dip and declination in the lee of the break-wind.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • As he said, once behind a break-wind one could safely defy it, but on the march one is much more humble.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson