'wind up' definitions:
Definition of 'wind up'
(from WordNet)
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