Crossword clues for winded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wound (wound) (rarely Winded); p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. Wander, Wend.]
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor.
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To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
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To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. ``To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.''
--Shak.In his terms so he would him wind.
--Chaucer.Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses.
--Herrick.Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
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To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical.
--Shak.Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.
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To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil. To wind out, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon. To wind up.
To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely.
To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument.
To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. ``Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.''
--Dryden. ``Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.''
--Atterbury.To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.''
--Waller.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
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To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in
sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p.
Wound (wound), R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their
horns.''
--Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
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Wind the shrill horn.
--Pope.
That blast was winded by the king.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
short of breath v
(en-past of: wind)
WordNet
adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, gasping, out of breath(p), panting, pursy, short-winded]
Usage examples of "winded".
But they went on merrily, albeit their road winded so much, that the Sage told them, when evening was, that for their diligence they had but come a few short miles as the crow flies.
Winded but triumphant, he let a bath servant assist him into his tub while Alec stationed himself on a nearby bench.
By the time Crug took over from the exhausted Droog, the young animal was visibly winded.
I asked a big winded lady carrying three rackets if Jeanie Geis was on the courts, and between pantings, she pointed to a game of mixed doubles and told me she was the girl on the far court.
Kinaveral-heavy, despite which Khat arrived at the Trade Bar barely winded.
Grant moved out into the light, glanced again at the winded officer, the man staring at him with wide wounded eyes.
She smashed and ripped and tore, and all the while the dog howled and howled and occasionally barked when Mumsy got winded and had to rest.
Now, shuddering at his folly and in winded exhaustion, he stared at the raw end of his right arm and gathered his will, letting resolve grow slowly cold and hard within him.
While his companions drew swords or readied lances or uncased darts, Mai unslung his horn and winded the signal upon which he and his lieutenants had agreed.
Sometimes, when ascending hills, when the winded horse breathed hard from his nostrils, and heaved his flanks, the captain, left to more freedom of thought, reflected upon the prodigious genius of Aramis, a genius of astucity and intrigue, such as the Fronde and the civil war had produced but two.
But then his companions slowed the pace of their flight, as the black horses grew winded.
They soon saw the lights of Camino Viejo ahead of them, and by now the winded pony was breathing naturally and the dry night winds had blown most of that sweat away.
Winded, Erin sank into the snow as Trav continued to pick up balls from the ground and throw them with the re-lenfless force of a pitching machine.
Beldrune sniggered as he overtook his winded colleague, urging it on with a small, feather-plumed whip, his splendid boots outthrust like tusks on either side of his mule.
The stableboys drew lots and pulled off their tunics for wrestling, until they were sweaty and winded from their efforts.