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wound back

wound back is the simple past and past participle of wind back.

Meaning of wind back

Verb

wind back (third-person singular simple present winds back, present participle winding back, simple past and past participle wound back)

  1. (transitive) To wind (a tape, cassette, or film, etc) towards the beginning; to rewind.

Questions about wound back

What is wound back the simple past and past participle of?
Wound back is the simple past and past participle of wind back.

Words near wound back in the dictionary

  1. Woulfe's bottle
  2. wouling
  3. wouls
  4. wound
  5. wound around one's little finger
  6. wound back
  7. wound back the clock
  8. wound cambium
  9. wound collecting
  10. wound collection
  11. wound collections

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wound back (page history and authors); wind back (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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