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1. Operated by a mechanism
   "windup toys"

1. A concluding action
   - completion, culmination, closing, mop up

1. The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
   - tease, teasing, ribbing, tantalization, tantalisation [Brit]

1. Finally be or do something
   "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
   - finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, finish
    
2. Give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
    
3. Stimulate sexually
   - arouse, sex, excite, turn on
    
4. Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
   - wind

Derived forms: winding up, winds up, wind-ups, windups, wound up

See also: mechanical

Type of: act, conclusion, ending, excite, fasten, harassment, molestation, move, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, swing, termination, tighten

Encyclopedia: Wind up