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wind something up


phrasal verb with windverbuk /waɪnd/ us /waɪnd/wound | wound
to close a business or organization: 关闭(企业或机构);使停业
Lawyers were called in to wind up the company.律师被请来对这家公司进行停业清理。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to stop operating permanently
close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another.
closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently.
shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business.
shutUKSeveral of the bank's local branches are shutting.
shut up shopUKThe seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Success & failure in business
administration
axe
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be running on fumesidiom
belly
charter
dying
fold
go belly upidiom
go darkidiom
go into administration
go to the wallidiom
growth hacker
receiver
shut (something) down
shut up shopidiom
sinking shipidiom
soft launch
spin something off

wind up


phrasal verb with windverbuk /waɪnd/ us /waɪnd/wound | wound
informal
to find yourself in an unexpected and usually unpleasant situation, especially as a result of what you do: (使自己)陷入,卷入,落得
If he keeps doing stuff like that he's going to wind up in prison!如果他这么干下去,最终会进监狱的!
You don't want to wind up homeless, do you?你不想最后落得无家可归,对不对?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Coming to an end
closure
cloture
come off
come to a full stopidiom
come to a headidiom
end
finish line
finish up
finishing line
fizzle
fizzle out
go out (of) the windowidiom
head
let
road
run
sunset
taper
taper off
the sun sets on somethingidiom

wind (something) up


phrasal verb with windverbuk /waɪnd/ us /waɪnd/wound | wound
to end, or to make an activity end: (使)结束
I think it's about time we wound this meeting up.我看我们该结束这次会议了。
We need to wind up now, we only have five minutes left.我们现在得结束了,只剩5分钟的时间了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to finish something
finishDid you finish your homework?
endWhat time does the concert end?
completeHave you completed the questionnaire?
concludeShe concluded her speech by thanking everyone who had helped her.
polish offHe's just polished off two huge bowls of pasta.
wind upIt's time to wind up the game now.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing something to end
abandon
abandonment
all good things (must) come to an endidiom
and have done with itidiom
be over the humpidiom
cure
give over
halt
hang
jack something in
kill something stone-deadidiom
lay
lid
lift
snap
snuff something out
stamp on something
stamp something out
stanch
staunch

wind someone up


phrasal verb with windverbuk /waɪnd/ us /waɪnd/wound | wound
UKinformal

(ANNOY)


to annoy or upset someone: 惹恼(某人);使(某人)心烦
It really winds me up when he goes on about teachers having an easy life.他不停地说教师的日子过得很轻松,真是把我气坏了。
She just knows how to wind me up.她就知道如何惹恼我。
See also
wound up
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing feelings of anger and displeasure
aggravate
aggrieve
alienate
anger
annoy
bend
give someone the shitsidiom
go too faridiom
goat
grate
hack someone off
nark
rile
rub
rub someone up the wrong wayidiom
ruffle
ruffle someone's feathersidiom
tit
tooth
troll

(DECEIVE)


to tell someone something that is not true in order to make a joke: (为开玩笑而)欺骗,哄骗,戏弄
Are you serious or are you just trying to wind me up?你是认真的还是只想骗骗我?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Teasing
chaff
joke
josh
kid
kiddingly
leg
only joking!idiom
pull someone's legidiom
rag
rag on someone
raillery
rib
ribbing
roast
spoof
standing joke
tease
teaser
teasingly
wind
wind-up
noun[ Cusually singular ]
(alsowindup)uk /ˈwaɪnd.ʌp/ us /ˈwaɪnd.ʌp/

wind-upnoun[C usually singular] (JOKE)


UKinformal
something that is not true that you tell someone in order to make a joke: 故意惹恼
You can't be serious - is this a wind-up?你不可能是当真的,你在故意惹我?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
funny business
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
prankishly
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull

wind-upnoun[C usually singular] (BASEBALL)


in baseball, the movement of the body that a pitcher makes before throwing the ball to the batter, usually involving lifting up the front leg and raising the hands above the head:
He looked at the catcher for a sign and went into his wind-up.
He changed his windup so that he would put less stress on his ankles.
See also
the stretch
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
heater
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
sac
solo
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
swing
wind-up
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈwaɪnd.ʌp/ us /ˈwaɪnd.ʌp/
A wind-up toy, watch, etc. has a key or part that you turn in order to make it operate: (玩具、手表等)上发条的
a wind-up alarm clock上发条的闹钟
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Machines - general words
3-D printer
animatronic
automated
automation
backhoe
chuck
coffee machine
convenience
crankshaft
Heath Robinson
humanoid
immobilizer
roller
snow thrower
stacker
stump grinder
supersensitivity
synchrotron
valve
workhorse

wind up | American Dictionary


wind up


phrasal verb with windverbus/wɑɪnd/past tense and past participlewoundus/wɑʊnd/
us/ˈwɑɪndˈʌp/

(BECOME)


to come to be in a particular situation or condition, esp. a bad one:
If you aren’t careful lifting weights, you could wind up hurting yourself.

wind up (something)


phrasal verb with windverbus/wɑɪnd/past tense and past participlewoundus/wɑʊnd/
us/ˈwɑɪndˈʌp/

(FINISH)


to end something:
We should be able to wind (things) up by 10 o’clock.

wind up | Business English


wind up


phrasal verb with windverbuk /waɪnd/uswound | wound
[ T ] LAW
to close a business, especially when it is not successful and has debts:
The company was wound up in February with debts of $5.2 million.
[ I or T ]
to end a meeting, discussion, or an activity:
We need to start winding up now as someone else has booked the meeting room.
They announced that they would be winding up the negotiations today.
See also
winding up
wind-up
noun[ C ]
 MANAGEMENT, LAWukus
the process of formally ending the existence of a company, usually because it is bankrupt:
The firm collapsed and a wind-up order was given.

See also


winding up

Examples of wind something up


wind something up
In the other task, an adult presented a wind-up toy, wound it up and pushed it towards the child (usually performed by the experimenter).
Show the child the wind-up hopping rabbit; send it hopping to the edge of the table where the child cannot reach it.
There were also two wind-up toys for the structured joint attention tasks, a purple dinosaur and a red crab.
First, all the toys had wind-up, pull-back, or motorized mechanisms.
It is the scheme rules on distributing excess assets on wind-up which will be left in place.
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These included staff, property, finance and progress towards wind-up.
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The wind-up speeches are due to start at 9 o'clock.
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Only a small minority of schemes have wind-up rules that could in principle result in assets being left unallocated.
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A small minority of schemes have wind-up rules which could in principle result in assets being left unallocated.
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I also support many of the venture capital trust changes, which allow a merger and wind-up without losing the tax benefits.
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It would ensure that a high-quality management service could be maintained as wind-up approached.
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He was seeking some ammunition for his knockabout wind-up in which he will add up all our increases in expenditure and consider the borrowing requirement.
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However, no information is available as to how many of these schemes are salary-related schemes that were underfunded on wind-up.
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He received valuations from a team of valuers on selling the land and advice from a team of lawyers on the wind-up.
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We are seeking to enable them to do that by phasing the wind-up processes as we have arranged.
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