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wind up
/ 飞补瑟苍诲 /
verb
- to bring to or reach a conclusion
he wound up the proceedings
- tr to tighten the spring of (a clockwork mechanism)
- informal.tr; usually passive to make nervous, tense, etc; excite
he was all wound up before the big fight
- tr to roll (thread, etc) into a ball
- an informal word for liquidate
- informal.intr to end up (in a specified state)
you'll wind up without any teeth
- tr; usually passive to involve; entangle
they were wound up in three different scandals
- tr to hoist or haul up
- slang.tr to tease (someone)
noun
- the act of concluding
- the finish; end
- slang.an act or instance of teasing
she just thinks it's a big wind-up
Example Sentences
They wind up getting cast, under strained dramatic circumstances, in the school musical, and a romance of sensitive oddballs blossoms.
鈥淭he youth presently in Los Padrinos will need to go somewhere, and if some wind up at Camp Scott, the public release of photos and videos could be seriously detrimental,鈥 Sargent wrote.
And even if you鈥檙e able to keep your job under the Family and Medical Leave Act, you may wind up needing to take an unpaid leave of absence.
Immortality offers a liberation that the Jim Crow-era South doesn鈥檛, both for the Black characters and even the white ones, whose bigoted special status winds up narrowing their options.
One episode opens with a black-and-white low-budget revisionist movie western 鈥 titled 鈥淭he Long Road Home,鈥 after this series鈥 own theme 鈥 in which Harrison winds up as an extra.
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