vverb.changefinally be or do somethingSynset:end up fetch up finish finish up land up
Examples:- He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
- he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
Derivationally Related Form:windup
Hypernyms:act move
Inherited Hypernyms:finish upact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s VERB-ing
vverb.motiongive a preliminary swing to the arm pitchingTopic:ballbaseballbaseball game
Hypernyms:swing
Inherited Hypernyms:wind upswingmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
vverb.emotionstimulate sexuallySynset:arouse excite sex turn on
Examples:- This movie usually arouses the male audience
Derivationally Related Form:sexturn-on
Hypernyms:excite shake shake up stimulate stir
Inherited Hypernyms:arousestimulatearousemake
Direct Hyponyms:tempt
Full Troponyms:tempt
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: wind up, turn on, excite, arouse)
vverb.contactcoil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stemSynset:wind
Derivationally Related Form:windwinder
Hypernyms:fasten tighten
Inherited Hypernyms:windtightenchange
Direct Hyponyms:rewind
Entailment:turn
Full Troponyms:rewind
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something