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All wind up synonyms

wind up
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verb wind up

  • get out of the way — move aside
  • dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
  • annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
  • come to a head — to be about to discharge pus
  • hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • go through with — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
  • mopping up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
  • cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
  • exasperate — Irritate intensely; infuriate.
  • get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
  • quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
  • kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
  • carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
  • cinched — a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
  • intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
  • do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
  • call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
  • cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
  • fold up — a part that is folded; pleat; layer: folds of cloth.
  • cut it out — to stop doing what one is doing
  • kick the habit — quit smoking
  • furl — to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
  • close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
  • complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
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