'wind up' definitions:

Definition of 'wind up'

verb

Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again" [syn: finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish]

verb

Give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching

verb

Stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" [syn: arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up]

verb

Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch" [syn: wind, wind up]

Synonyms of 'wind up'

From: Moby Thesaurus

abort,
button up,
cap,
carry to completion,
cease,
charge,
clean up,
climax,
close,
close out,
close up,
cock,
complete,
conclude,
crown,
culminate,
determine,
do,
end,
finalize,
finish,
finish off,
finish up,
get done,
get it over,
get through,
get through with,
get up steam,
halt,
load,
mop up,
perfect,
perorate,
prime,
resolve,
round out,
scrap,
scratch,
set,
steam up,
stop,
terminate,
top off,
top out,
warm up,
wind,
wrap up

Words containing 'wind up'

All in the wind,
Before the wind,
Down the wind,
To be in the wind,
To have the wind,
To wind off,
To wind out,
To wind up,
Wind,
Winded,
Winding,
Windingly,
against the wind,
in the wind,
into the wind,
wind off,
winds,
A beating wind,
A capful of wind,
A sheet in the wind,
Baffling wind,
Between wind and water,
Both sheets in the wind,
Broken wind,
Cardinal winds,
Close to the wind,
Cross wind,
Dead wind,
Down-wind,
Drum winding,
Fore wind,
Head wind,
In the eye of the wind,
In the wind's eye,
Land wind,
Near the wind,
On the wings of the wind,
Ring winding,
Series winding,
Shunt winding,
Side wind,
Slant or wind,
Thick wind,
To break wind,
To carry the wind,
To gain the wind,
To get wind,
To haul the wind,
To raise the wind,
To take the wind,
To take wind,
To touch the wind,
To wind a ship,
Trade wind,
Up-wind,
Volcanic wind,
Wind Gap,
Wind Lake,
Wind Point,
Wind band,
Wind chest,
Wind colic,
Wind dropsy,
Wind egg,
Wind furnace,
Wind gauge,
Wind gun,
Wind hatch,
Wind instrument,
Wind pump,
Wind rose,
Wind rush,
Wind sail,
Wind shake,
Wind shock,
Wind side,
Wind signal,
Wind wheel,
Wind-up,
Winding engine,
Winding sheet,
Winding tackle,
Wood wind,
antitrade wind,
break wind,
breaking wind,
catabatic wind,
chinook wind,
east wind,
field winding,
gentle wind,
get wind,
high wind,
katabatic wind,
long winded,
north wind,
northwest wind,
prevailing wind,
primary winding,
second wind,
secondary winding,
solar wind,
south wind,
straw in the wind,
tail wind,
west wind,
wind bell,
wind chime,
wind cone,
wind deflection,
wind exposure,
wind farm,
wind gage,
wind generation,
wind generator,
wind harp,
wind park,
wind poppy,
wind power,
wind scale,
wind sleeve,
wind sock,
wind tee,
wind tunnel,
wind turbine,
wind vane,
Broken-winded,
Long-winded,
Short-winded,
Stem-winding,
Thick-winded,
Three sheets in the wind,
To eat the wind out of a vessel,
Wind Gap, PA,
Wind Lake, WI,
Wind Point, WI,
Wind-break,
Wind-broken,
Wind-fertilized,
Wind-plant,
Wind-rode,
Wind-shaken,
Wind-sucker,
Wind-sucking,
ill-wind,
long-windedly,
pinwheel wind collector,
self-winding,
wind energy facility,
winding-clothes,
winding-sheet,
To take the wind out of one's sails,
wind cave national park