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wound off

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

Meaning of wind off

Verb (1)

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

  1. (transitive) To unwind, unspool, or unreel something.
    • Wind me off about ten feet.

Verb (2)

wind off (third-person singular simple present winds off, present participle winding off, simple past and past participle winded off)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To cancel (an event) due to high wind speeds.
    • Our crane operations have been winded off for two weeks!

Questions about wound off

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

Words near wound off in the dictionary

  1. wound cork
  2. wound down
  3. wound gall
  4. wound galls
  5. wound gum
  6. wound off
  7. wound one's neck in
  8. wound parasite
  9. wound parasites
  10. wound rotor
  11. wound rotors

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