Verb

(en verb)

To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

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To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.

The boxer was winded during round two.

(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.

I can’t run another step — I’m winded .

(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.

To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

To perceive or follow by scent.

The hounds winded the game.

To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

Verb

(lb) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.

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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

(lb) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

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To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.

(lb) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.

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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path whichwinded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.

*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)

*:The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

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*1969 , (Paul McCartney)

*:The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.

To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus

* (1591-1674)

*:Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:You have contrivedto wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.

*Government of Tongues

*:little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse

To cover or surround with something coiled about.

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Verb

(label) To obtain; to acquire.

(label) To receive.

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To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .

(label) To become.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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(label) To cause to become; to bring about.

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(label) To fetch, bring, take.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 13

Get thee out from this land.

* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

Heto the strong town of Mega.

(label) To cause to do.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Get him to say his prayers.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

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To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

to get rid of fools and scoundrels

(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

to get a mile

(label) To cause to come or go or move.

(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

* (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), Retro me, Sathana , line 1

Get thee behind me.

(label) To begin (doing something).

(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

To be subjected to.

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Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl

(label) To be.

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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(label) To find as an answer.

To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

(label) To hear completely; catch.

(label) To .

To beget (of a father).

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

* 2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .

* (1625-1686)

it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty

Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

*2007 , Tom Dyckhoff, Let's move to ..., The Guardian :

Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.