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wind up

noun as in conclusion

noun as in closing

noun as in consummation

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For instance: suppose the Republicans wind up with a clear Senate majority on November 4th.

But as it takes away the safety net, their corpses wind up in fishing nets.

I took the opportunity to point out that many of the players in the upcoming slate of games would wind up with brain damage.

The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery.

Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.

I understood, Mr. Clifton, that you were the solicitor employed to wind up the affairs of the late Mr. Antony Clifton.

It would have been nice to see Meadows wind up rich, or for Howlet to become mayor of the dome, but what could I do?

"That—that is the wind-up," said the poor Nabob, who could not help laughing, though it was a very piteous and bitter laugh.

In the course of a sermon he will give you three or four perorations, and sometimes wind up without treating you to one.

If the reel is made to wind up 4 ft. of line to each revolution and the sash-cord shaft is 3/4 in.

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On this page you'll find 232 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wind-up, such as: breakdown, disintegration, dissolution, divorce, separation, and split.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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