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Princeton's WordNet
finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finishverb
finally be or do something
"He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
wind upverb
give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb
stimulate sexually
"This movie usually arouses the male audience"
wind, wind upverb
coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
"wind your watch"
Wiktionary
wind upnoun
A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
wind upverb
To end up; to arrive or result.
wind upverb
To conclude, complete, or finish.
wind upverb
To tighten by winding or twisting.
wind upverb
To excite.
wind upverb
To play a prank, to take the mickey or mock
wind upverb
To dissolve a partnership or corporation and liquidate its assets
Wikipedia
wind up
American R&B singer-songwriter Keke Palmer has released two studio albums, three extended plays, three mixtapes and 28 singles. In 2005, she signed a record deal with Atlantic Records. Palmer released her debut album So Uncool on September 18, 2007. The album failed to chart on the US Billboard 200, but did chart at number 85 on the R&B chart. The album was preceded by the second single "Keep It Movin'". In 2010, Palmer was signed by the Chairman of Interscope Records, Jimmy Iovine, and began working on an album.In January 2011, Palmer released her first mixtape Awaken. The mixtape was officially released on January 10, 2011, for downloading from mixtape-downloading websites. The first and only single released from the mixtape was "The One You Call". A music video was also released for the song. In July 2012, Palmer released the single "You Got Me" featuring Kevin McCall. The video for the single was released on July 11, 2012. Palmer released a self-titled mixtape Keke Palmer on October 1, 2012. It included her previously released singles "You Got Me" and "Dance Alone".
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wind up
Wind up generally refers to: 1. Arriving at a specific point or condition, particularly as a result of a course of action. 2. A process of completing or ending something such as a meeting, speech, or an activity. 3. The act of tightening the spring mechanism in a mechanical device, making it ready for use or operation. 4. In informal terms, it can also be referred to as provoking or teasing someone. Each definition depends on the context in which it is used.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wind up in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wind up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of wind up in a Sentence
Never level with a fool, since, you'll wind up be leveled fool.
They are really, really going to push the executive privilege issues. It is almost certainly going to wind up in the United States Supreme Court.
I think we should expect, David, that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases -- and hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.
At first I thought, is it a hoax ? Is someone on a wind-up ? , i looked into it and realized that this chap had, I thought, won fairly and squarely.
You got a problem there, you know why ? Because it is likely that if four of them are positive and they've been hanging around together, that the other ones that are negative are really positive. So, I mean, if you have one outlier( only one player testing positive), I think you might get away. But once you wind up having a situation where it looks like it's spread within a team, you got a real problem. You got ta shut it down.
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