Nature

Synonyms for gust

The synonym for gust recorded in this bank is blow, in the sense "a strong current of air". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for gust

blownoun, in the sense "a strong current of air"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gust.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineNature

a strong current of air

The tree was bent almost double by the gust.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

blow

Same sentence, swapped: The tree was bent almost double by the blow.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot gust is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

zephyr
draught
stamp

Where gust turns up in the game

gust is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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