Synonyms for wound up
wound up

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1. aroused, wound upadjective

   brought to a state of great tension

   "all wound up for a fight"

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

   Antonyms:
   relaxed

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1. Kristen McRedmond:

   I was under the impression I had one tumor, and that was it, they wound up finding spots all over.

2. Rod Blagojevich:

   My mother and father were working people, so they wound up in Chicago, like so many people from Central and Eastern Europe.

3. Cary Deuber:

   I think when you have five dynamic women together, you get wound up no matter what, i don't think we don't push each other's buttons on purpose.

4. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday:

   The problem is the way it was written and implemented is we cast too wide a net and we had too many people in prison, and we wound up...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 so they could live productive lives.

5. Jimmy Smits:

   I thought I hit the jackpot with' L.A. Law,' but to have [' NYPD Blue' ] come around the way it did, for whatever the artistic reasons were, it didn't happen, and then it wound up that it came back to me. It was just like, I can't [ say no ]. That was like' Lightning can't struck twice.'.