Definition of "wound-up" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of wind-up. (verb)
• Brought to a state of great tension (adjective)

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• "It didn't start all wound-up, and then spend itself down just once."
• "If we "assume the Big Bang" as if it were something that happened outside the bounds of reality, then we have a universe that, magically, begins fully wound-up, comprised of potential energy in unimaginably super-concentrated form."
• "Add a bedtime Internet habit, and you've got one fine recipe for a wound-up kid."