through-draft

A form of through-draught — A draught or air current that blows across a space; cross breeze.

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Meanings

nounthrough-draft (plural through-drafts)

plural through-drafts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of through-draught.

    She opened two more windows, trying to get a through-draft.

    2014, Rachel Seiffert, The Walk Home
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    All the internal doors were wedged wide, and there were upper windows open sufficient to make sure that there would be a strong through-draft.

    2011, Elizabeth Corley, Fatal Legacy

    It was another scorcher of a summer that year and the temperature in the flat was almost unbearable, even with the glass windows kept covered up all day: we had the front door open to try to create a through-draft.

    2015, Martyn Bedford, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Adam Marek, Beta-Life: Stories From an A-Life Future
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APA

through-draft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/through-draft

MLA

“through-draft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/through-draft. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “through-draft,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/through-draft.

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