| Main Entry: | wind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, turn |
Synonyms: |
coil, convolute, corkscrew, cover, crook, curl, curve, deviate, distort, encircle, enclose, entwine, envelop, fold, furl, loop, meander, ramble, reel, roll, screw, slither, snake, spiral, swerve, twine, twist, weave, wrap, wreathe, wriggle, zigzag |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury |
Synonyms: |
anguish, bruise, cut, damage, distress, gash, grief, harm, heartbreak, hurt, insult, laceration, lesion, pain, pang, shock, slash, torment, torture, trauma |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause bodily damage |
Synonyms: |
bruise, carve, clip, contuse, cut, damage, ding, gash, harm, hit, hurt, injure, irritate, lacerate, nick, open up, ouch, pierce, rough up, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stick, total* |
Antonyms: |
aid, cure, heal, help |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental hurt |
Synonyms: |
bother, cut to the quick, distress, disturb, do in, dump on, get*, grieve, hurt, hurt one's feelings, mortify, offend, outrage, pain, put down*, shake up, sting, traumatize, trouble, upset |
Antonyms: |
appease, help |
| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
-verbs
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
-adjectives
blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary.
-phrases
"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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| Main Entry: | afflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause or become hurt |
Synonyms: |
agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound |
| Notes: | afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with' |
Antonyms: |
aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
Synonyms: |
angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury from gripping, tearing |
Synonyms: |
chaw, chomp, gob, itch, laceration, nip, pain, pinch, prick, smarting, sting, tooth marks, wound |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip or tear with teeth |
Synonyms: |
champ, chaw, chaw on, chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, take a chunk out of, taste, tooth, wound |
| Main Entry: | bring down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce or hurt |
Synonyms: |
KO, abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, knock down, lay low, level, lower, mow down, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, shoot down, slay, throw down, tumble, undermine, upset, wound |
Antonyms: |
aid, encourage, help, raise |