How to pronounce wind

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What wind means

verb

Most people know wind in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To twist and bend, like a path through the hills

In a sentence: We watched the river wind back and forth across the green valley.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word, windan, meaning to turn or twist. It is a different word from the wind that blows, and it rhymes with find.

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