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knocked the wind out of someone's sails

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
knocked the wind out of -some-one's -sails
IPA
55
Scrabble Score
32
Letters
4
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of knock the wind out of someone's sails

Questions

What does knocked the wind out of someone's sails mean?
simple past and past participle of knock the wind out of someone's sails

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