WINDS UP Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

winds up

verb

present tense third-person singular of wind up

as in ends

to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point try to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time

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as in stops

to come to an end her speeches usually wind up with one last joke

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Recent Examples of winds up Starting on Saturday, daytime humidity levels are expected to be incredibly low as the region is expected to be hit with north winds up to 15 to 25 miles per hour, gusts ranging from 35 to 45 mph, and up to 50 mph in some local areas. —

Noe Padilla, USA Today, 14 May 2026 If the drone winds up anywhere inside its starting safe zone, the visual neural network guides it the rest of the way home. —

Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 13 May 2026 Thanks to its fleecing of New Orleans during last year’s draft, Atlanta gets either the Pelicans’ or the Bucks’ first-round pick — whichever winds up higher. —

Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 6 May 2026 Maybe that’s why this new movie — in which billionaires, to paraphrase fellow Fox property Homer Simpson, are the cause of and solution to most of life’s problems — winds up feeling like even more of a fairy tale than the original. —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026 The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a tornado packing winds up to 145 mph and rated an EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, touched down in Mineral Wells, Texas, on Tuesday, injuring five people and destroying homes and other structures, officials said. —

ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026 The group winds up settling on a new planet inhabited by two rival native factions, the Garkohn and the Tehkohn, and Alanna gets caught right in the middle of their conflict. —

Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 Payton loves trading up, and Paton loves trading back; here, the latter winds up happy. —

Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Apr. 2026 In Boston Blue, Wahlberg plays an NYPD vet who winds up working for the Boston Police Department in an effort to be closer to his son Sean (Mika Amonsen). —

Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026

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But Polis, whose final term ends early next year, will also leave office having checked off some issues that have lingered for years.

— Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
Co-owner Danielle Dore said the move ends 52 years of renting and will bring more seating, a dog-friendly patio and the same all-day breakfast focus.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2026