wind up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnd ˈʌp/
Forms: form: winds up
form: winding up
form: wound up
form: wound up
Senses: examples: text: I wound up the spool of rope.
antonyms: unwind
unspool
play out
wind down
glosses: To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
examples: text: I wound up the clock.
text: Your pocket watch will run for a long time if you wind up the spring all the way.
text: Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
examples: text: The movie wound me up emotionally.
synonyms: word: bind
word: cinch
word: bind
word: brace
word: cinch
word: clench
word: constrict
word: squeeze
word: tighten
word: taughten
word: tauten
word: tense
glosses: To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
examples: text: Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.
synonyms: word: gin up
word: stimulate
word: work up
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To excite.
examples: text: Of all their regrets, it was their inability to score an away goal that might wind up Klopp the most. Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way.
ref: 2019 May 1, Daniel Taylor, “Lionel Messi magic puts Barcelona in command of semi-final with Liverpool”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: burn up
word: get up
word: get someone's back up
word: rile up
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
word: affront
word: aggravate
word: anger
word: antagonize
word: awrath
word: burn up
word: cheese off
word: cross
word: embitter
word: envenom
word: gall
word: get
word: get to
word: honk off
word: incense
word: inflame
word: infuriate
word: madden
word: make angry
word: nark
word: offend
word: outrage
word: provoke
word: put out
word: rankle
word: rile
word: piss off
word: roil
word: set off
word: steam
word: tick off
word: get one's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: make someone see red
word: make someone's blood boil
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: raise someone's shag
word: rattle someone's cage
word: rub the wrong way
word: ruffle some feathers
word: set up someone's birse
glosses: To upset; to anger or distress.
examples: text: Wind up your window — it's starting to rain.
synonyms: roll up
raise
antonyms: wind down
roll down
lower
glosses: To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
examples: text: Mess around with drugs and wind up broke.
text: I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.
text: The Hound's afraid to go in. Maybe he's afraid the occupants will tell on him, but Beric points out that there's no smoke in the chimney or livestock in the yard, so it's probably deserted. It's not. Inside are the decaying corpses of the farmer and his little girl, in bed together with a knife on the floor. Beric CSIs that they were starving to death, so the man ended the suffering for both of them. And they might not have wound up that way if they hadn't met the Hound.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
ref: 2013 January 24, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
synonyms: end up
turn out
turn up
antonyms: start out
glosses: To end up; to arrive or result.
examples: text: Now, things got even more confusing. Farenholt and Laffey hadn't spotted the incoming Japanese Navy vessels, and were winding up to full speed to more-quickly bypass the cruisers. Duncan, of course, could see the radar contacts to its starboard, and so assumed that this increase in speed by its compatriots was the start of a general assault on the enemy. And so, not wanting to be left behind, it broke off and headed off into the darkness to start what turned out to be a one-ship torpedo assault.
ref: 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 15:25 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: go up
word: shoot up
word: augment
word: grow
word: increase
word: propagate
word: rise
word: wind up
glosses: To increase (in some aspect).
examples: text: Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.
text: A general feast, of which all the male inhabitants of the town partake, winds up the proceedings at the close of the nineteen days.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 231:
text: In late April, residents were sent a blunt letter telling them that the town's ancient market, which had stopped because of the pandemic, and which really did date back to the reign of Queen Anne, would be wound up.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: round off
word: complete
word: conclude
word: consummate
word: discontinue
word: do
word: end
word: finalize
word: finish
word: fullcome
word: get through
word: round off
word: stay
word: stop
word: terminate
word: wind up
coordinate_terms: wind down
glosses: To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
glosses: To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
examples: text: Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?
synonyms: word: pull one's leg
word: take for a ride
word: befool
word: frump
word: gibe
word: gird
word: gleek
word: jape
word: jeer
word: jive
word: josh
word: kid
word: lampoon
word: mimic
word: mock
word: needle
word: niggle
word: razz
word: rib
word: roast
word: satirize
word: scoff
word: scorn
word: tease
word: twit
word: bust on
word: clown around
word: make a fool of
word: make fun of
word: make sport of
word: poke fun at
glosses: To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
examples: text: Paige seemed to be winding up for a fastball but then switched it up.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
Derived terms: snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches
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