What is "wound up"

Usage examples of "wound up".

After many deaths of duplicates and some of originals, the boss Dars wound up with a hold full of screaming, implacable Dars-prisoners.

Why couldn't he remember anything before he fled Sherry and wound up in the Castle Zombie dungeon?

I was a schmuck, but I was a lucky schmuck, and I wound up dealing with some understanding bankers who worked out a fair deal.

Time and again people have achieved all of these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied—.

He walked away from the tunnel along a path that wound up the mountain but he was so deep in thought he did not notice where he was going.

The smooth road wound up through green meadows, which gradually gave way to a series of ornate gardens.

The military command was exuberant over the success of the enhanced violence, and thought that the war could soon be wound up, leading to US withdrawal after victory.

Her nervous system was wound up to the highest pitch of excitement.

Unless, of course, she wound up enobled in recognition of her selfless service to the Star Kingdom.

In those hearty times, breakfast differed but slightly from dinner or supper, and a very substantial repast, wound up with spiced wines and cates, was set before the guests preparatory to their setting forth.

He could have easily gotten some tendons sliced and wound up with a crippled hand.