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Break wind   /breɪk wɪnd/   Listen
Break wind

verb
1.
Expel intestinal gases through the anus.  Synonym: fart.






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"Break wind" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the will, St. Augustine urges, of having seen a man who could command his rear to discharge as often together as he pleased, Vives, his commentator, yet further fortifies with another example in his time,—of one that could break wind in tune; but these cases do not suppose any more pure obedience in that part; for is anything commonly more tumultuary or indiscreet? To which let me add, that I myself knew one so rude and ungoverned, as for forty years together made his master vent with one continued and unintermitted ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne



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