Synonyms for wound-up
wound-up

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1. wound-upadjective

   Synonyms:
   aroused, tense

2. wound-upadjective

   brought to a state of great tension

   all wound up for a fight

   Synonyms:
   aroused, tense

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1. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday:

   The problem is the way it was written and implemented is we cast too wide a net and we had too many people in prison, and we wound up...putting so many people in prison that there wasn't enough money left to educate them, train them for new jobs and increase the chances when they came out so they could live productive lives.

2. Mike Conaway:

   Given the overall backdrop of how many folks don't like Trump, how many folks do like Trump — and the raw partisan nature of all of that and that debate — I don't know that we could have done it differently or it would have wound up any differently.

3. Rod Blagojevich:

   My mother and father were working people, so they wound up in Chicago, like so many people from Central and Eastern Europe.

4. Jack Philip Barsky:

   I wound up to be one of the best-trained agents they ever sent to the United States.

5. Tom Jennings:

   The question is, was this a Stockholm Syndrome type of thing where she wound up having empathy with the people who are actually holding you hostage ? there’s probably some of that involved. I did n’t get the sense from studying this … that she was playing along … To me, she sounded very genuine in her hatred of the government and her family. I think [ the SLA ] had turned her.