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adverb 
  1. in the same direction as the wind is blowing
    • 1888: Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
    • :... the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both, and drove us like pieces of paper.
      1. (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
    • :I don't want to live from a pig farm.
Etymology: 
  • down + wind



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