Come and Wind up

Come

Come verb - To move closer to.

Wind up and come are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wind up" instead a verb "Come".

Nearby Words: coming, comer

Wind up

Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.

Come and wind up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come" instead a verb "Wind up".

Both terms in one sentence

  • In one episode of Wally Gator two crooks come to the zoo to steal a platypus and wind up taking Wally instead because they read the name plate on his cage wrong.
  • Usually, they'll either mess it up and actually come close to drowning, or wind up with the "wrong" person trying to resucitate them.
    Source: Kiss of Life
  • Clockwork Creature The clockwork spiders and clockwork golem that come in both wind up and steam powered flavors from Marleybone in the MMORPG Wizard 101.
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