51Թ

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broken wind

[ wind ]

noun

Veterinary Pathology.


broken wind

/ ɪԻ /

noun

  1. vet science another name for heaves
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • k-ɾԻĻ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of broken wind1

First recorded in 1745–55
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Example Sentences

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Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.

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Next door in a poorer house, there is a child's broken wind chime.

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A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.

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Horses fed on concentrated aliment are liable to various disorders, originating from diseased action of the stomach and liver, broken wind, staggers, blindness, &c.

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All those affections, distinguished in the English veterinary works as pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs, chronic cough, thick and broken wind, consumption, &c., are popularly designated as heaves.

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