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INTO THE WIND

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing

Example:

they flew upwind

Synonyms:

against the wind; into the wind; upwind

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Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

I gazed entranced, till the boat ran into the wind and the flapping sail warned me I was not attending to my duties.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We ran down the flying jib, hauled the jib-sheets to wind-ward and the main-sheet flat, and came up into the wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And as I choked and strangled, and as the Ghost wallowed for an instant, broadside on and rolling straight over and far into the wind, I beheld a huge sea rise far above my head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was a wild, keen look in them I had never seen before, and her lips parted and her breath suspended as the Ghost, charging upon the wall of rock at the entrance to the inner cove, swept into the wind and filled away into safe water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)