Antonyms for wound upwound up

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1. aroused, wound upadjective

   brought to a state of great tension

   "all wound up for a fight"

   Antonyms:
   relaxed

   Synonyms:
   randy, stirred, excited, worked up, stimulated, turned on(p), ablaze, aflame, horny, ruttish, emotional, steamy, aroused, stirred up

How to use wound up in a sentence?

1. Bill Clinton:

   The problem is the way it was written and implemented. We have too wide a net. We have too many people in prison. And we wound up spending - putting so many people in prison that there wasn’t enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out that they could live productive lives.

2. Torey Krug:

   It was a desperation play at that point. You don’t worry about positions and just play hockey, it wound up on my stick and I was able to put it in.

3. Keith Urban:

   I think Qaasim Middleton, who we used it on, kept delivering for the next few weeks and kept getting through, so I think it was a good use of the save. The eccentric Cook was a favorite, although maybe not the singer many predicted to go all the way. Some thought her performance of My Funny Valentine was not her best, and she wound up in the bottom two with Rayvon Owen. In the end, the Twitter save element saved Rayvon Owen, for a third straight week. I think hes in a dangerous place now.

4. William Hazlitt:

   The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

5. Tom Jennings:

   The question is, was this a Stockholm Syndrome type of thing where she wound up having empathy with the people who are actually holding you hostage ? there’s probably some of that involved. I did n’t get the sense from studying this … that she was playing along … To me, she sounded very genuine in her hatred of the government and her family. I think [ the SLA ] had turned her.

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