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Synonyms for wind
Synonyms for wind: twist and roll. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for wind
Interchangeable with wind in this sense
Audited under wind's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wind carries in that sense.
- twistnoun, in the sense "the act of winding or twisting"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wind as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- rollroll is a verb in the sense "arrange or coil around"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under wind and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the act of winding or twisting
He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind.
The true synonym
twist
Same sentence, swapped: He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good twist.
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 wind is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- lead
- jazz
- feather
Where wind turns up in the game
wind is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where wind is the trap
- leadnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is track, in the sense "evidence pointing to a possible solution", and wind is on the board beside it.
- startnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is jump, in the sense "a sudden involuntary movement", and wind is one of the three tiles that lose.
- radiateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ray, in the sense "extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center", and wind is on the board beside it.
- sniffverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is whiff, in the sense "perceive by inhaling through the nose", and wind is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play wind
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wind reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wind carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.