1 a sudden strong increase in the amount and speed of wind that is blowing:
A gust of wind blew his hat off. * The wind was blowing in gusts.
2 a sudden strong expression of emotion:
a gust of laughter / despair
verb [V] (of the wind) to suddenly blow very hard:
winds gusting up to 60 mph * The wind gusted through the branches.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gust is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gust a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gust is tagged as noun.
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