Synonyms for wound-up
wound-up

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1. wound-upadjective

   Synonyms:
   aroused, tense

2. wound-upadjective

   brought to a state of great tension

   all wound up for a fight

   Synonyms:
   aroused, tense

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1. Karin Keller-Sutter:

   I have come to the realization in recent weeks that a globally active, systemically important bank cannot simply be wound up according to the ‘too big to fail’ plan, legally, this would be possible. In practice, however, the economic damage would be considerable.

2. District Attorney Hays Webb:

   It serves as a reminder that there’s a very fine line. You have someone who has been to space five times and, because of a bad decision on his part, wound up killing two girls.

3. Carol Burnett:

   She got sober when she was 17, i put her in a third rehab place, and oh my God, she hated me. I came to the conclusion that I had to love her enough to let her hate me. She got sober and we started bonding. We wound up working together, writing a play together. We worked together in three shows.

4. Mike Conaway:

   Given the overall backdrop of how many folks don't like Trump, how many folks do like Trump — and the raw partisan nature of all of that and that debate — I don't know that we could have done it differently or it would have wound up any differently.

5. Tom Jennings:

   The question is, was this a Stockholm Syndrome type of thing where she wound up having empathy with the people who are actually holding you hostage? there’s probably some of that involved. I don’t get the sense from studying this… that she was playing along… To me, she sounded very genuine in her hatred of the government… I think [the SLA] had turned her.