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Wind up

verb

Finally be or do something. Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish, finish up, land up. "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"

Give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching.

Stimulate sexually. Synonyms: arouse, excite, sex, turn on.

Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem. Synonym: wind.

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"Wind up" Quotes from Famous Books

... territorial campaigns, a most unusual thing for an Indian of that day. Being a man of means and influence, he was listened to with respect by the scattered white settlers in his vicinity. He would make a political speech through an interpreter, but would occasionally break loose in his broken English, and wind up with an invitation to drink in the following words: "Chentimen, you Pemicans (Republicans), come ...

— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... skirt a little—and this obviously was the cue for a gallant soldier. The corporal began, indeed, to wind up his line, but with a foolish grin and a glance at ...

— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... a brave and manly effort to wind up his father's affairs and pay his outstanding debts. He was so far stirred out of himself that it hardly occurred to his mind that a slur would be left on him if these debts were left unpaid: his strongest motive ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... Maybe they'd try you and maybe they wouldn't. Anyways, they'd sure wind up by hangin' you by the neck till you was as dead as ...

— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... wind up the history of our visit in a moral style,' said Anne, 'and call it a lesson ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

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