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put the wind up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, ambitransitive, informal) To frighten or disturb.
    • They found out that I had gone somewhere, couldn't get in touch, and that put the wind up and they began to imagine everything. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
    • P. G. Wodehouse I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
put the wind up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put the wind up Tense=Past lexicographic
puts the wind up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting the wind up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

get the wind up · have the wind up