Antonyms of verb wind

1 of 7 senses of wind

Sense 3
wind, wrap, roll, twine -- (arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child")
       Antonym of unwind (Sense 1)
      => unwind, wind off, unroll -- (reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb wind

7 senses of wind

Sense 1
weave, wind, thread, meander, wander -- (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body")
       => travel, go, move, locomote -- (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast")

Sense 2
wind, twist, curve -- (extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest")
       => be -- (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer")

Sense 3
wind, wrap, roll, twine -- (arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child")
       => move, displace -- (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant")

Sense 4
scent, nose, wind -- (catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs")
       => smell -- (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)

Sense 5
wind, wind up -- (coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch")
       => tighten, fasten -- (make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire")

Sense 6
wreathe, wind -- (form into a wreath)
       => intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace -- (spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts")

Sense 7
hoist, lift, wind -- (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car")
       => raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up -- (raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load")

Antonyms of adj winded

1 sense of winded

Sense 1
blown, pursy, short-winded, winded -- (breathing laboriously or convulsively)

INDIRECT (VIA breathless) -> breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic -- (passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone")

Similarity of adj winded

1 sense of winded

Sense 1
blown, pursy, short-winded, winded -- (breathing laboriously or convulsively)
       => breathless (vs. breathing), dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspneal, dyspnoeal -- (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty; "breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless from running"; "followed the match with breathless interest")

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