wound up
Ended up tense
Wound up describes a state of nervous tension or excitement: She was too wound up to sleep.
It also means having arrived at a final state or position, often unexpectedly: We wound up at the wrong restaurant, He wound up becoming a lawyer after all.
The two senses derive from different verbs—winding a spring tight versus winding along a path to its end.
- concludedBrought to completion
- agitatedEmotionally disturbed, restless
- tightenMake more secure
- stressedOverwhelmed by pressure
- tenseStrained or nervous
finalized · keyed up · frazzled · clockwork · windup · wrapped up · strain · on edge · on tenterhooks · nervous · jittery · bundle of nerves · at wit's end · spring · spring loaded · terminated · coiled · strung
- financial ruinbankrupt, bankruptcy, bust, busted, broke
- mood idiomsbad mood, black mood, dark mood, foul mood, in a mood
- slang moodsbummed, chill, cranky, edgy, grumpy
- uneasyanxious, nervous, jittery, edgy, tense
- discontinueddiscontinued, terminated, cancelled, ended, stopped
- hyperactivityfidgeting, hyper, restlessness, fidgety, restless
completion/resolution
wound upongoing
In progress now
continuing · in progress · unfinished · active · underway
wind, winding, unwind, upward, wrap up, winds, speed up, hurry up, wind up