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upwind
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective upwind has 1 sense
- upwind(s = adj.all) weather - towards the side exposed to wind; Array
Adverbial upwind has 2 senses
- upwind(r = adv.all) leeward - toward the wind; "they were sailing leeward" Antonym: downwind
- upwind(r = adv.all) against the wind, into the wind - in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" Antonym: downwind
CIDE DICTIONARY
upwind, v. t.
To wind up. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
upwind, a.
being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing. [PJC]
THESAURUS
upwind
alee, alight, arise, ascend, aweather, come down, come in, come up, crash-land, curl upwards, descend, ditch, downwind, go up, grow up, land, leeward, level off, levitate, light, loom, mount, overshoot, pancake, rear, rear up, rise, rise up, settle down, spiral, spire, stand up, surge, swarm up, sweep up, talk down, to leeward, to windward, touch down, tower, up, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, weatherward, windward
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