Definitions for wind-up
wind-up

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1. wind-upnoun

   The end or conclusion of something.

2. wind-upnoun

   A punch line of a joke or comedy routine.

3. wind-upadjective

   needing to be wound up in order to function.

Anagrams for wind-up »

1. upwind

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1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wind-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wind-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of wind-up in a Sentence

1. Another NBA team official:

   The NBA is trying to have it both ways. They are taking this [coronavirus] seriously; they have from the jump. But they want the players to not feel too restricted by the rules. What you wind up doing, you create more confusion to a process that's already kind of confusing because everything changes so quickly when it comes to what you can do and what you can't.

2. Laurie Johnson:

   The great thing about Puppy Bowl is it shows you that you can get just about any type of dog in rescue. i would say 90, 95% of the dogs that are in rescue are not here because they failed as dogs. They’re here because humans failed them as owners, and they didn’t do anything wrong to wind up here and they are perfectly wonderful, amazing dogs.

3. Lina Walker:

   The savings would come on the back of consumers, people who want to keep traditional Medicare wind up paying more - the saving on premium support comes from people who have traditional Medicare now, but shift to a lower-cost option because that is all they can afford.

4. Michael Weinstein:

   The record of people taking pills for every disease is bad, i know that personally when I've had to take an antibiotic for 10 days, I'm sure I'm taking it the way I'm supposed to be, and yet I wind up with a bunch of pills in the bottle at the end.

5. John Morrison:

   And beyond that, my hope is that we wind up convincing him to stop. this is not free speech, this is nothing protected by the First Amendment, this is not the expression of political opinion.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wind-Up