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break wind

verb as in pass gas

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Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.

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The average person passes gas 12 to 25 times a day, but when you’re on a plane, you might feel like you’re constantly breaking wind.

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Mr. Urban was “the sort of man who ostentatiously and deliberately breaks wind in living rooms and watches the reaction of other guests,” Daniel Passent, a Polish political columnist, wrote in 1985.

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Bush was that it allowed him the privacy and freedom to break wind.

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The solution: Hiring a man who can break wind on command to launch darts at Steve-O from a flatulence-powered dart gun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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