WINDUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windup mean? 

• WINDUP (noun)
  The noun WINDUP has 1 sense:

1. a concluding action

  Familiarity information: WINDUP used as a noun is very rare.

• WINDUP (adjective)
  The adjective WINDUP has 1 sense:

1. operated by a mechanism

  Familiarity information: WINDUP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A concluding action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup

Hypernyms ("windup" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "windup"):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

consummation (the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse)

finish; finishing (the act of finishing)

finalisation; finalization (the act of finalizing)

follow-through (carrying some project or intention to full completion)

follow-through (the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion)

graduation (the successful completion of a program of study)

Derivation:

wind up (finally be or do something)

• WINDUP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Operated by a mechanism

Context example:

windup toys

Similar:

mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)