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windupnoun the last part of a process or actionwait until the windup of your sales pitch before giving up any information about the product's price point capper, close, closing, conclusion, consummation, end, endgame, ending, finale, finis, finish, grand finale, homestretch, mop-up, wrap-up acme, apex, capstone, climax, copestone, coup de grâce(or coup de grace), crescendo, crown, culmination, high-water mark, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tip-top, top, zenithaftermath, anticlimax, coda, epilogue(also epilog), postscriptshank, tag end, tail end baseline, beginning, dawn, day one, nascence, nascency, opening, start foreword, introduction, overture, preamble, preface, prelude, prologue(also prolog) wind upverbto bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping pointtry to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time close, close out, complete, conclude, end, finish, round (off or out), terminate, wrap up climax, crownconsummate, perfecthalt, stop, suspend put paid to(chiefly British), ring down the curtain (on) begin, commence, inaugurate, open, start to come to an endher speeches usually wind up with one last joke break off, break up, cease, close, conclude, dead-end, determine, die, discontinue, elapse, end, expire, finish, go, halt, lapse, leave off, let up, pass, quit, stop, terminate, wink (out) desist (from), lay off (of), refrain (from)give over(British), knock off, pack (up or in)break down, conk (out), cut out, stallpause, stay, suspendabate, peter (out), wind down bite the dust continue, hang on, persist draw out, extend, prolong, protract in 1583 |