"wind up" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /waɪnd ˈʌp/ Audio: en-us-wind_up.ogg Forms: wind ups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wind up (plural wind ups)
  1. Alternative form of wind-up Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: wind-up
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-noun-dFG9x9Gc

Verb

IPA: /waɪnd ˈʌp/ Audio: en-us-wind_up.ogg Forms: winds up [present, singular, third-person], winding up [participle, present], wound up [participle, past], wound up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|wind<,,wound> up}} wind up (third-person singular simple present winds up, present participle winding up, simple past and past participle wound up)
  1. (literally, transitive) To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely. Tags: literally, transitive
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-xINej3ee
  2. (transitive) To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-~vODlMww
  3. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting. Tags: broadly, figuratively, transitive Synonyms: bind, cinch, tighten Translations (to tighten by winding or twisting): stramme op (Danish), vetää (Finnish), remonter (French), aufziehen (German), felhúz (Hungarian), felteker (Hungarian), montar (Occitan), amodar (Occitan), dar corda (english: clocks and watches) (Portuguese), dar cuerda (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-ZMEUkQIf Disambiguation of 'to tighten by winding or twisting': 2 12 55 4 3 4 5 5 2 3 5 2
  4. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To excite. Tags: broadly, figuratively, transitive Synonyms: gin up, stimulate, work up, thrill Translations (to excite): opwinden (Dutch), innostaa (Finnish), felzaklat (Hungarian), felizgat (Hungarian), felbosszant (Hungarian), feldühít (Hungarian), felhergel (Hungarian), animar (Portuguese), excitar (Portuguese), раззадоривать (razzadorivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-gDRsOFit Disambiguation of 'to excite': 0 1 2 78 5 2 3 3 1 2 2 0
  5. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress. Tags: broadly, figuratively, transitive Synonyms: burn up, get up, get someone's back up, rile up, annoy, enrage
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-Oh4tx4Gn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Sassarese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 12 10 5 5 17 4 4 8 6 4 6 12 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 5 11 8 4 5 20 10 8 5 5 3 6 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 12 9 5 4 18 9 8 6 6 5 7 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 14 11 4 3 21 5 6 6 5 5 4 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 11 3 2 27 6 5 4 4 3 4 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 5 10 7 3 4 30 6 6 5 4 3 9 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 4 10 8 5 4 18 10 9 6 6 5 7 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 6 9 7 4 3 20 7 8 6 5 3 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 9 8 5 4 18 9 9 7 6 5 6 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 6 10 8 5 3 21 8 7 6 5 4 7 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 5 7 8 8 8 16 6 6 10 6 7 8 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 6 9 7 4 3 20 7 8 6 5 3 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 6 9 7 4 3 20 7 8 6 5 3 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 5 10 8 4 3 20 8 6 6 5 4 12 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 4 8 7 4 3 15 8 9 8 13 4 9 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 9 7 4 2 19 7 7 7 5 3 10 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 11 8 4 3 22 8 7 6 6 4 6 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Sassarese translations: 5 10 8 4 3 20 8 6 6 5 4 12 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 11 8 4 4 24 8 7 5 5 5 6 10
  6. (literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking). Tags: literally, transitive Synonyms: roll up, raise
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-92XzPLC9
  7. (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result. Tags: copulative, intransitive Synonyms: end up, turn out, turn up Translations (to end up; to arrive or result): joutua (Finnish), päätyä (Finnish), arriver (French), terminer (French), kiköt (Hungarian), kerül (Hungarian), jut (Hungarian), érkezik (Hungarian), találja magát (Hungarian), 종식되다 (jongsikdoeda) (Korean), acabar (Occitan), arribar (Occitan), acabar (Portuguese), resultante (Portuguese), finì (Sassarese), ir a parar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-5wEUBBv2 Disambiguation of 'to end up; to arrive or result': 0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1
  8. (intransitive) To increase (in some aspect). Tags: intransitive Synonyms: go up, shoot up, increase
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-O1ykkvWU
  9. (transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something). Tags: transitive Synonyms: round off, end Translations (to conclude, complete, or finish): gøre færdig (Danish), lave færdig (Danish), afslutte (Danish), päättää (Finnish), lopettaa (Finnish), conclure (French), terminer (French), achever (French), beschließen (German), lezár (Hungarian), lekerekít (Hungarian), befejez (Hungarian), 종식되다 (jongsikdoeda) (Korean), whakamutu (Maori), acabar (Occitan), claure (Occitan), conclure (Occitan), terminar (Portuguese), concluir (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-3PGcfWBV Categories (other): Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 4 8 7 4 3 15 8 9 8 13 4 9 8 Disambiguation of 'to conclude, complete, or finish': 0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1
  10. (transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets. Tags: transitive Translations (to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets): opløse (Danish), purkaa (Finnish), liquider (French), terminer (French), auflösen (German), felszámol (Hungarian), whakamutu (Maori), acabar (Occitan), liquidar (Occitan)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-yL6qxYw0 Disambiguation of 'to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets': 0 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 3 80 1 1
  11. (British, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock. Tags: British, transitive Synonyms: pull one's leg, take for a ride, mock Translations (to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock): vedättää (Finnish), se moquer (French), vanner (French), aufziehen (German), ugrat (Hungarian), se trufar (Occitan), robić w konia (Polish), pregar uma peça (Portuguese), tomar el pelo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-wJyzvAja Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock': 0 1 1 2 1 4 4 1 2 1 82 0
  12. (baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Baseball
    Sense id: en-wind_up-en-verb-Zpavf7Yd Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches, wind-up, windup, wind up one's bottoms, wind-up radio

Inflected forms

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          "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.",
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        "(transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress."
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        {
          "word": "burn up"
        },
        {
          "word": "get up"
        },
        {
          "word": "get someone's back up"
        },
        {
          "word": "rile up"
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          "word": "annoy"
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        {
          "word": "roll down"
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          "word": "lower"
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        {
          "text": "Wind up your window — it's starting to rain.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking)."
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          "text": "Mess around with drugs and wind up broke.",
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        {
          "text": "I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "ref": "2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "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.",
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          "ref": "2013 January 14, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:",
          "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.",
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          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
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          "word": "joutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "päätyä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "arriver"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "terminer"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "kiköt"
        },
        {
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "jut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 4 78 1 8 1 2 1",
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "érkezik"
        },
        {
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "találja magát"
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          "roman": "jongsikdoeda",
          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "종식되다"
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "acabar"
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
          "word": "resultante"
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          "word": "finì"
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          "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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          "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.",
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        "(intransitive) To increase (in some aspect)."
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          "text": "Coordinate term: wind down (the only sense in which \"wind up\" and \"wind down\" can be nearly or wholly synonymous, via alternative metaphors)"
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          "text": "Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.",
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          "ref": "1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 231:",
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:",
          "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.",
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          "word": "round off"
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          "word": "end"
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          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1",
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          "word": "gøre færdig"
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          "word": "lave færdig"
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          "word": "afslutte"
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "päättää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "lopettaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 3 23 3 55 4 2 1",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "beschließen"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "lezár"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "lekerekít"
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        {
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "befejez"
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        {
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          "roman": "jongsikdoeda",
          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "종식되다"
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          "word": "whakamutu"
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "acabar"
        },
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        {
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "terminar"
        },
        {
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
          "word": "concluir"
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          "_dis1": "0 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 3 80 1 1",
          "code": "da",
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          "word": "opløse"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
          "word": "purkaa"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
          "word": "liquider"
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          "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
          "word": "terminer"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
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          "text": "Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?",
          "type": "example"
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          "word": "vedättää"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
          "word": "se moquer"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
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          "word": "vanner"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 1 2 1 4 4 1 2 1 82 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
          "word": "aufziehen"
        },
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          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
          "word": "ugrat"
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          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
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          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
          "word": "robić w konia"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 1 1 2 1 4 4 1 2 1 82 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
          "word": "pregar uma peça"
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          "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
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      "word": "snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches"
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          "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.",
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          "text": "I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.",
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          "ref": "2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "word": "shoot up"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: wind down (the only sense in which \"wind up\" and \"wind down\" can be nearly or wholly synonymous, via alternative metaphors)"
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          "text": "Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note.",
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          "ref": "1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 231:",
          "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.",
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          "ref": "2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:",
          "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.",
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        "(transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets."
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          "text": "Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "joutua"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "kiköt"
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "jut"
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "érkezik"
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "találja magát"
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      "roman": "jongsikdoeda",
      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "종식되다"
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "arribar"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "acabar"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
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      "sense": "to end up; to arrive or result",
      "word": "ir a parar"
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    {
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "gøre færdig"
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    {
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "lave færdig"
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    {
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "afslutte"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "päättää"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "lopettaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "conclure"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "terminer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "achever"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "beschließen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "lezár"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "lekerekít"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "befejez"
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "종식되다"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "whakamutu"
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      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "acabar"
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    {
      "code": "oc",
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      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "claure"
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    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "conclure"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "terminar"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to conclude, complete, or finish",
      "word": "concluir"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "stramme op"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "vetää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "remonter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "aufziehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "felhúz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "felteker"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "montar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "amodar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "english": "clocks and watches",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "dar corda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to tighten by winding or twisting",
      "word": "dar cuerda"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "opwinden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "innostaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "felzaklat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "felizgat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "felbosszant"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "feldühít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "felhergel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "animar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "word": "excitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razzadorivatʹ",
      "sense": "to excite",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "раззадоривать"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "vedättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "se moquer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "vanner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "aufziehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "ugrat"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "se trufar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "robić w konia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "pregar uma peça"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to play a prank, to take the mickey or mock",
      "word": "tomar el pelo"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "opløse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "purkaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "liquider"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "terminer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "auflösen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "felszámol"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "whakamutu"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "acabar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets",
      "word": "liquidar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wind up"
}

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