Get Wind

Definition: Get Wind

Get Wind

Verb

1. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Get Wind

Information

Be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, get wind of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand.

Publication

Be published; be public, become public; Adjective: come out; go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.

Crosswords: Get Wind

Expressions using "get wind": get wind of ♦ get wind of smth. ♦ To get wind. Additional references.

Albanian

mësoj (acquire, attune, be educated, coach, condition, digest, educate, enure, find, find out, get on to, get wind of, hear, illuminate, induct, instruct, inure, learn, school, study, teach, train). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سمع إشاعة (get wind of), ‏علم ب (get wind of), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, nose, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подушвам (get wind of, nose, scent, smell, smell out, snuff, wind), подочувам (get to know, get wind of, overhear). (various references)

Czech

zaèít vìtřit co (get wind of). (various references)

Finnish

saada vihiä jostakin (get an inkling of, get wind of). (various references)

French

s'informer de qch (get wind of), mettre en rogne (get wind of smth.), découvrir (get wind of), apprendre (get wind of). (various references)

German

Wind bekommen von (to get wind of). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמוע שמוע�" (get wind of), ל�"ו�"ע (become known, get wind of). (various references)

Hungarian

megszimatol vmit (to get wind of sg), megneszel vmit (have the wind up, to get the wind up, to get wind of sg), lélegzethez jut (to get wind). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

聞込む (to find out, to get information, to get wind of), 聞き込む (to find out, to get information, to get wind of), 嗅ぎつける (to get wind of, to sniff out), 嗅ぎ付ける (to get wind of, to sniff out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きき�"む (to find out, to get information, to get wind of, to have heard), かぎつける (to get wind of, to sniff out). (various references)

Pig Latin

etgay indway

Romanian

avea ştire de (get wind of). (various references)

Russian 

испугаться (get wind of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

načuti (get wind of). (various references)

Spanish

llegar a saber algo (get wind of), enterarse de (become aware of, get wind of, learn, learn of). (various references)

Turkish

kokusunu hissetmek (get wind of). (various references)

Ukrainian

пронюхати (get wind of, scent out). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: twinged.

-1 letter: dewing, nidget, tewing, tinged, twined, twinge, widget, winged.

-2 letters: deign, dinge, dwine, teind, tined, tinge, twine, widen, wined, wited.

-3 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, edit, gent, gied, gien, newt, nide, nite, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting, twig, twin, wend, went, wide, wind, wine, wing, wite.

-4 letters: den, dew, die, dig, din.

+2 letters: tweedling.

+3 letters: dewatering, stewarding, unweighted, wadsetting.

+4 letters: underweight.

+5 letters: underweights, underwriting.