wind up
phrasal verbwind up
- (informal) (of a person) to find yourself in a particular place or situation
- I always said he would wind up in prison.
- wind up doing something We eventually wound up staying in a little hotel a few miles from town.
- + adj. If you take risks like that you'll wind up dead.
- (of a clock or machine) to be able to be made to work by turning a knob, handle, etc. several times
- It was one of those old-fashioned gramophones that winds up.
wind up | wind something up
- to bring something such as a speech or meeting to an end
- The speaker was just winding up when the door was flung open.
- If we all agree, let's wind up the discussion.
wind somebody up
- (British English, informal) to deliberately say or do something in order to annoy somebody
- Calm down! Can't you see he's only winding you up?
- That can't be true! You're winding me up.
wind something up
- to stop running a company, business, etc. and close it completely
- to make something such as the window of a car move upwards by turning a handle, pressing a button, etc.
- Are all the windows wound up?
- to make a clock or machine work by turning a knob, handle, etc. several times
- He wound up the clock every Saturday night.