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. Chris Cuomo:

   I forgot Raj’s last name this morning. I apologize for that. And then there wound up being a counter-narrative: ‘Well, that makes you racist,' it’s not helpful… it’s being said.

2. District Attorney Hays Webb:

   It serves as a reminder that there’s a very fine line. You have someone who has been to space five times and, because of a bad decision on his part, wound up killing two girls.

3. Dave Perry:

   I don't do the sexy stuff, i don't come out and say, 'I know who the Grassy Knoll assassin is!' I'm the guy that goes into the county records building and looks up deed records. Most people don't get too wound up over that.

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. Mike Conaway:

   Given the overall backdrop of how many folks don't like Trump, how many folks do like Trump — and the raw partisan nature of all of that and that debate — I don't know that we could have done it differently or it would have wound up any differently.