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put the wind up

put the wind up verb: to frighten or disturb.

Verb

put the wind up (third-person singular simple present puts the wind up, present participle putting the wind up, simple past and past participle put the wind up)

  1. (UK, ambitransitive, informal) To frighten or disturb.
    • P. G. Wodehouse
      I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.
    • They found out that I had gone somewhere, couldn't get in touch, and that put the wind up and they began to imagine everything.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

put the wind up meaning in Malayalam

put the wind up in Malayalam

someone frighten, scare, make afraid
ഭയഭീതിയുണർത്തുക, ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുക, പേടിപ്പിക്കുക, പരിഭ്രാന്തിയിലാക്കുക, സംഭ്രമിപ്പിക്കുക, ഞെട്ടിപ്പിക്കുക

Forms of put the wind up

third-person singular presentputs the wind up
present participleputting the wind up
past participleput the wind up
pastput the wind up

Questions about put the wind up

What does put the wind up mean?
Put the wind up means to frighten or disturb.
What is put the wind up in Malayalam?
Put the wind up in Malayalam is ഭയഭീതിയുണർത്തുക, ഭയപ്പെടുത്തുക, പേടിപ്പിക്കുക. See Put the wind up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is put the wind up?
Put the wind up is a verb.
What is the past tense of put the wind up?
The past tense of put the wind up is put the wind up.

Words near put the wind up in the dictionary

  1. put the shoe on the other foot
  2. put the squeeze on
  3. put the stunners on
  4. put the tin lid on it
  5. put the toothpaste back in the tube
  6. put the wind up
  7. put the wood in the hole
  8. put the world to rights
  9. put through
  10. put through hoops
  11. put through the hoops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put the wind up (page history and authors); put the wind up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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