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单词 broken wind
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Definition of broken wind in English:

broken wind

noun
mass noun
  • another term for COPD in horses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The condition is also known as heaves, recurrent airway obstruction, broken wind, emphysema, chronic bronchitis or small airway disease.
    • COPD, broken wind and heaves are one and the same thing.
    • Back in the 1800s horses were said to be winded or to have broken wind when they had respiratory difficulties. They were called ‘pipers’ by horse dealers ...

Derivatives

  • broken-winded

  • adjectiveˌbrəʊkənˈwɪndɪdˌbroʊk(ə)nˈwɪndɪd
    • Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The farmer had paused over Fred's respectable though broken-winded steed long enough to show that he thought it worth consideration, and it seemed probable that he would take it, with five-and-twenty pounds in addition, as the equivalent of Diamond.
      • The horse turned out to be broken-winded and Roche refused to take it back.
      • Horses that are lame, broken-winded, and vicious, pull the great bulk of all the weight that horses pull.
      • The average life of even the sturdiest horses used in this work is six months, for in this length of time they either become broken-winded… or are driven crazy by the frightful heat.
 
 

Definition of broken wind in US English:

broken wind

nounˌbroʊkən ˈwɪndˌbrōkən ˈwind
  • another term for COPD in horses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • COPD, broken wind and heaves are one and the same thing.
    • The condition is also known as heaves, recurrent airway obstruction, broken wind, emphysema, chronic bronchitis or small airway disease.
    • Back in the 1800s horses were said to be winded or to have broken wind when they had respiratory difficulties. They were called ‘pipers’ by horse dealers ...
 
 
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