Synonyms for wind up
wind up

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1. wind upverb

   That ends, or is ended, of which there is no more, whether or not more was intended or needed; that is closed, completed, concluded, or finished which has come to an expected or appropriate end. A speech may be ended almost as soon as begun, because of the speaker's illness, or of tumult in the audience; in such a case, the speech is neither closed, completed, nor finished, nor, in the strict sense, concluded. An argument may be closed with nothing proved; when an argument is concluded all that is deemed necessary to prove the point has been stated. To finish is to do the last thing there is to do; as, "I have finished my course," 2 Tim. iv, 7. Finish has come to mean, not merely to complete in the essentials, but to perfect in all the minute details, as in the expression "to add the finishing touches." The enumeration is completed; the poem, the picture, the statue is finished. To terminate may be either to bring to an arbitrary or to an appropriate end; as, he terminated his remarks abruptly; the spire terminates in a cross. A thing stops that comes to rest from motion; or the motion stops or ceases when the object comes to rest; stop frequently signifies to bring or come to a sudden and decided cessation of motion, progress, or action of any kind. Compare DO; TRANSACT.

   See synonyms for BEGIN.

   Synonyms:
   break off, cease, close, complete, conclude, desist, end, end, expire, finish, quit, stop, terminate

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1. finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finishverb

   finally be or do something

   "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"

   Synonyms:
   earth up, get through, turn on, clear up, end, finish up, finish, fetch up, eat up, polish off, terminate, wrap up, wind, mop up, arouse, finish off, cease, complete, sex, stop, land up, excite, end up

2. wind upverb

   give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching

   Synonyms:
   end up, arouse, finish up, fetch up, turn on, wind, finish, sex, land up, excite

3. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb

   stimulate sexually

   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

   Synonyms:
   wind, trip out, kindle, charge, excite, end up, arouse, put forward, awake, trip, shake up, shake, come alive, get off, commove, energize, perk up, agitate, hinge on, enkindle, wake up, stir, wake, elicit, energise, finish, stimulate, fire, rouse, finish up, bring up, depend upon, conjure up, fetch up, ride, depend on, devolve on, land up, hinge upon, raise, waken, turn on, call down, provoke, call forth, invoke, charge up, awaken, brace, evoke, sex, conjure, switch on

4. wind, wind upverb

   coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

   "wind your watch"

   Synonyms:
   wrap, turn on, finish up, meander, finish, fetch up, arouse, wind, twist, excite, roll, wreathe, nose, wander, curve, lift, scent, thread, sex, weave, twine, land up, hoist, end up

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Stimulate
   • Swing
   • Tighten

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wind up

   Synonyms:
   wind into a ball

2. wind up

   Synonyms:
   settle, close, close up

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1. Brian Deschanel:

   Never level with a fool, since, you'll wind up be leveled fool.

2. Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book:

   Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

3. Dan Gross:

   It's not to say that teaching your kids gun safety can't help, but relying on that alone is an extremely dangerous mentality, i see tragedies every day that wind up occurring because a parent thought that their child knew better.

4. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid:

   We should pass a homeland security bill with no strings attached, that's where we are going to wind up.

5. Warner Huh:

   For women between the age of 25 and 29, the HPV test does substantially increase the number of [follow-up tests], but it also detects more clinically meaningful precancer. There is a price to pay, but we do wind up finding more cancer.