Usually means: Became tense, anxious, or excited.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. wound up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wound up: Merriam-Webster
  3. wound up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wound up: Vocabulary.com
  5. wound-up: Wordnik
  6. wound up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wound-up, wound up: Wiktionary
  8. wound up: Dictionary.com
  9. Wound up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. wound up: Rhymezone
  11. wound up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wound up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. wound up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wound up: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Definitions from WordNet (wound up)

adjective:  brought to a state of great tension ("All wound up for a fight")


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