wound up

Speech parts

1. wound up - Adjective

2. wound up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

brought to a state of great tension

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

wound-up

Synonyms

aroused curly involute finished dissolved tense perfective exasperated worked up

Antonyms

undone

Examples

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Augustine of Hippo

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. William Hazlitt

What Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew No grown, his growth lasts taught, he ne'er forgets May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. Robert Browning

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations. Arthur Schopenhauer

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. Ann Patchett

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. James Russell Lowell

Close letter words and terms

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