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wound-up
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wound-upadjective
brought to a state of great tension
all wound up for a fight
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wound-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wound-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of wound-up in a Sentence
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
It was a desperation play at that point. You don’t worry about positions and just play hockey, it wound up on my stick and I was able to put it in.
The problem is the way it was written and implemented. We have too wide a net. We have too many people in prison. And we wound up spending - putting so many people in prison that there wasn’t enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out that they could live productive lives.
This is a vicious circle where people get more indebted, this one fisherman wound up owing the cartels $54,000 for 18 nets. He tried to get out, he finally came out and said there is no way I can repay the cartel. He was murdered.
The question is, was this a Stockholm Syndrome type of thing where she wound up having empathy with the people who are actually holding you hostage ? there’s probably some of that involved. I did n’t get the sense from studying this … that she was playing along … To me, she sounded very genuine in her hatred of the government and her family. I think [ the SLA ] had turned her.
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- aufgewickeltGerman
- acabouPortuguese
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