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windup

windup is the alternative form of wind-up.

Meaning of wind-up

Adjective

wind-up (not comparable)

  1. Of a machine, requiring winding up in order to function.
    • Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.1997, Daria (TV, episode 1.07)

See all 6 meanings of wind-up

Forms of windup

pluralwindups

Origin of windup

Deverbal from wind up.

Phrases with windup

Questions about windup

What is windup the alternative form of?
Windup is the alternative form of wind-up.

Words near windup in the dictionary

  1. windtrunks
  2. windtunnel
  3. windtunnels
  4. winduh
  5. winduhs
  6. windup
  7. windup radio
  8. windup radios
  9. windups
  10. Windvocate
  11. Windvocates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windup (page history and authors); wind-up (page history and authors). 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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