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To finish or bring to an end
“The Harner girls wind up the show with a rumba, doing it faster than their other numbers.”
To gradually eliminate or bring to an end
“He should continue to operate as he had been operating up to Christmas, and then gradually wind up the whole of his share transactions, and invest the proceeds in some sound stock.”
To annoy or make angry
“She'd really wind Eddie up into a state of mania by wanting to party all the time.”
To tease, make fun of, or play a prank on
“The other players would try to wind Lebron up by calling Michael a better player than him.”
To arrive or end up in a given place, state or situation
“It would be a shame to see them coming down from the mountain with the Ark in their rucksacks, knowing that it would wind up in some museum in the outskirts of Nashville.”
(baseball) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch
“I get back to the ball game just in time to see the pitcher wind up and throw the ball.”
To draw, or cause to draw, to a close
To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
To excite to an excessive degree
To annoy or provoke through teasing
To bring into a heightened emotional state
Reach a crisis
Sets the seal on
To carry out an action to the end
(of a machine) To cause something to begin to work or operate
To finish in a given place or rank, typically in a competition
To instill courage into
To come into possession of
To engage in playful or mischievous behavior
To carry out or accomplish
To tie or roll up (a number of things) together as though into a parcel
To stop the operations of, typically due to financial difficulty
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