Definitions for upwinds

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upwinds up·wind

Spelling: [adverb, adjective uhp-wind; noun Upwinds is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in upwinds (dinpsuw).

Definitions for upwinds

noun

1. a wind that blows against one's course or up a slope.

adverb

1. toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing:

adjective

1. moving or situated toward or in the direction from which the wind is blowing:

Origin of upwinds

First recorded in 1830-40; up- + wind¹

Examples for upwinds

upwind, not in order to prevent the Prairie-dog smelling her, but so that she could smell him, which came to the same thing.

If the menace was upwind and within reasonable distance, his nose detected it.

He generally tries to get away in the direction of the disturbance, or upwind, as the case may be.

I was the upwind wheeler and had to hitch on to the side of the sledge to reduce the leeway as much as possible.

In the beginning he rushes, upwind in instinctive reaction against the strange scent.

What had aroused him, at that distance and upwind, I do not know.

The Tower of London, upwind of the fire, was saved by blowing up surrounding buildings.

He sneaked toward them upwind in order that he might still smell them, and it also kept them from smelling him.