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— English words —

• windup n. The act of ending or concluding something.
• windup n. The last part of something; a conclusion.
• windup n. (Britain) A practical joke or tease.
• windup n. (Baseball) The act of preparing for a certain style of pitching.
• windup n. (US, figurative) A long explanation of some line of thought to reach a certain conclusion.
• windup adj. Operated by a coiled spring that is wound by hand.
• wind-up n. The end or conclusion of something.
• wind-up n. A punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
• wind-up n. (Britain) A humorous attempt to fool somebody, a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to…
• wind-up n. (Baseball) The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
• wind-up n. (Television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to…
• wind-up adj. (Of a machine) Needing to be wound up in order to function.
• wind␣up n. Alternative form of wind-up.
• wind␣up v. (Literally, transitive) To wind (Rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
• wind␣up v. (Transitive) To put (A clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the…
• wind␣up v. (Transitive, figurative extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
• wind␣up v. (Transitive, figurative extension) To excite.
• wind␣up v. (Transitive, figurative extension) To upset; to anger or distress.
• wind␣up v. (Literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
• wind␣up v. (Intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
• wind␣up v. (Intransitive) To increase (in some aspect).
• wind␣up v. (Transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
• wind␣up v. (Britain, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
• wind␣up v. (Baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.

— English words, defined in French —

• wind␣up v. Finir, conclure.
• wind␣up v. Finir par, se retrouver.
• wind␣up v. Enrouler.
• wind␣up v. (Argot) Agacer, énerver.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• wind␣up v. Concluir, chegar ao fim.
• wind␣up v. Excitar.
• wind␣up v. (Reino Unido) pregar uma peça, enganar, enrolar.

137 English words from 24 English definitions

A␣clock act Alternative anger arm arrive aspect attempt backwards ball Baseball before Britain bucket by␣hand car certain circular clock coiled comedy complete completely conclude concluding conclusion continued copulative cranking distress encouraged end ending end␣up etc excite explanation extension figurative film finish fool for form function gesture hand her his humorous in␣a␣state increase in␣order in␣order␣to intransitive joke kind kind␣of last line line␣of␣thought Literally long machine mainsprings make making mickey mock motion movements moves Needing of␣a Operated order or␣something out out␣of part phase pitch pitcher pitching play practical practical␣joke prank preparatory preparing punch punch␣line put reach renewed represent result roll roll␣up Rope routine signal some somebody someone something spring state string style supposed take take␣the␣mickey tease Television that that␣is the thought throwing tighten transitive twisting upset used used␣to victim watch well where which wind winding window wind␣up wound wound␣up

2 English words from 7 foreign definitions

Argot par

20 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

Agacer chegar Concluir conclure énerver enganar enrolar Enrouler Excitar fim Finir Finir␣par peça pregar Reino Reino␣Unido retrouver se␣retrouver uma Unido

12 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

windups wind-ups wind␣ups wind-up␣toy wind-up␣toys windup␣radio wind-up␣radio windup␣radios wind-up␣radios wind-up␣merchant wind-up␣merchants wind␣up␣one's␣bottoms

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

get␣the␣wind␣up put␣the␣wind␣up have␣the␣wind␣up

13 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

dup DUP Ind IND ind. Ind. in␣d. win Win WIN w/in wind Wind

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DNI pud Pud PUD

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

upwind

6 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

unwiped upwinds winds␣up windups wind-ups wind␣ups

3 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Dupin undip win␣up

4 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bindup bind␣up winduh wine␣up

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

win␣up

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

winds␣up

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