wound back
Turned in reverse
Wound back is the past tense of wind back—to reverse direction, revert to an earlier state, or reduce something that had been built up.
A clock is wound back.
A controversial policy gets wound back after public outcry: The government wound back restrictions once the crisis passed.
In video, you wound back the tape to watch something again.
- spoolCylinder for winding material
- tape deckMagnetic audio playback device
- reminisceRecall past experiences fondly
- crankRotary operating handle
- reverseTurn to opposite
reset · nostalgia · old times · ratchet · coil · undo · dial · retract · reflect · cassette · rotate · regress · memory lane · remember · recall · backtrack · ruminate · unroll
temporal direction of media/recording
wound backfast-forwarded
Accelerated playback past content
forwarded · advanced · moved forward · progressed · accelerated
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