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. Reda Hicks:

   My son was so little, explaining 300 days to him was out of the question, answering the questions about when dad would be home every single day wore on me so badly, I actually wound up making a huge paper chain for( my son Howie), with the number of chain links matching the number of days left. At first, it wrapped around our bannister from the second floor. We tore one off every night before bed, and it helped my son understand the bigness of time away, but that it was getting smaller.

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. Bill Clinton:

   The problem is the way it was written and implemented. We have too wide a net. We have too many people in prison. And we wound up spending - 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 that they could live productive lives.

4. 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 don’t get the sense from studying this… that she was playing along… To me, she sounded very genuine in her hatred of the government… I think [the SLA] had turned her.

5. Ron Benton:

   They were like,' Stop ! stop ! stop ! Please ! Put the gun down ! Please put the gun down !' And I was pointing at him, I was like' Down ! Put it down ! Put it down !' and they wound up exchanging fire.