Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
- v. To end up; to arrive or result.
- v. To conclude, complete, or finish.
- v. To tighten by winding or twisting.
- v. To excite.
- v. UK To play a prank, to take the mickey or mock
- v. To dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets
Examples
“COME TO EXCITING ANDALUSIA, one of them said, and I thought: How exactly did Espee wind up in this as Francesca put it dreary little suburb?”
“My ass would wind up dead and that nigga would be looking for the next piece of side-ass.”
“In fact, many places with valuable, nonrenewable resources like forests, metals, and minerals wind up as impoverished noncontenders in the global economy, with their citizens often left hungry and sick.”
“Even as he watched, he saw Latha Meru turn away from him, apparently retreating to the lift—but wind up facing him again anyway, as if she had done a full circle rather than a simple quarter-turn.”
“Youd rather wind up with a bunch of insane surge-monkeys?”
“Eventually she would wind up in Austin, where she worked as a librarian at Dawson Elementary.”
“The best example is the "Delicious Dish" segment, in which Gasteyer and Shannon brought back their [cough] NPR cooking-show hosts who always wind up wandering into some inadvertently filthy conversation about food.”
“I have since learned that Ruthann committed suicide at a special site, one with petroglyphs dating back to 750 B.C. No one is allowed there without an archaeological permit, and if you walk along the basin opposite the cliffs, you will eventually wind up in Walnut Canyon, and the cliff dwellings.”
“And we dredgemen give them their ballast, which of course they have to mix with rock, gravel and lime, else it would all wind up back in river.”
“Agitate cerebral cells until you wind up psychotic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wind up’.
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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phrasal verbs: UP
throw up, jazz up, cover up, add up, conjure up, beef up, chat up, butter up, pucker up, cough up, clam up, close up and 74 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 139 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Whatever Works (2009)
Words from 2009 'Whatever Works' film.
fault, racket, unto, flaw, fallacious, notion, decent, embalm, filch, delusion, delusions of gran..., grandeur and 135 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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words
craven, perennial, incumbent, infraction, truancy, foreboding, missgiving, understudy, upkeep, withdrawal, retreat, underscore and 95 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 143
razor-sharp, let go, turn tail, debate, representative, insurance, earn, barrage, apology, crush, john, gush and 19 more...
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TT3 Lesson 28
asylum, bath, booth, boxing ring, commited, congress, creativity, deer, driveway, English muffins, eggplant, essay and 42 more...
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Duo3.0
aptitude, doctrine, lean on, renown, eminent, trail, perplexity, bewilderment, ardent, zealous, foyer, obstruct and 81 more...
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week 1
diffident, self-possessed, panelist, thorough, emulate, fancy, witty, swallow, merge, forecast, fringe, executive and 42 more...
Tweets
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oroboros Contronymic in the sense: begin (pitcher's wind-up) vs. end. Jan 31, 2007