downwind
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Adverb[edit]
downwind (comparative more downwind, superlative most downwind)
- 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 downwind like pieces of paper.
- (+ from) positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
- I don't want to live downwind from a pig farm.
- (aviation) in the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern
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in the same direction as the wind is blowing
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positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
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