rewound

Verb

rewind (third-person singular simple present rewinds, present participle rewinding, simple past and past participle rewound)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To wind (something) again.
   • A Myrish crossbowman poked his head out a different window, got off a bolt, and ducked down to rewind.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Arya [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 440
2. (intransitive, transitive) To wind back, of something clocklike or recordlike, like a cassette, tape, film; especially to then replay or relive.
   • Let's rewind the clock to an earlier time.
3. (figuratively) To regress the state of playback of a recording.
   • I've rewound the audiobook to the start of the chapter.
4. (figuratively) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
   • If I had a time machine / And if life was a movie scene / I'd rewind, and I'd tell me / "Ru-u-u-u-u-u-u-un"2014, Ingrid Michaelson, Trent Dabbs, busbee, “Time Machine”, in Lights Out, performed by Ingrid Michaelson

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