break wind

Speech parts

1. break wind - Noun

2. break wind - Verb

Meaning

expel intestinal gases through the anus

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

break-wind

Synonyms

fart toot guff cut the cheese pass gas flatulate pass wind trump plop blow-off poot let one loose cut one cut one loose rip one

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Hypernyms

act involuntarily act reflexively

Related terms

break wind backwards break wind upwards

Examples

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. Brad Pitt

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. Honoré de Balzac

An Elder does not break wind in public, but in a latrine. South African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

break upon the wheel break water break wedlock break wind backwards break wind upwards break with