What is the meaning of wound up?

Finally be or do something.
- usage: "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
- synonyms: finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish
Give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching.
- synonyms: wind up
Stimulate sexually.
- usage: "This movie usually arouses the male audience"
- synonyms: arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up
Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.
- usage: "wind your watch"
- synonyms: wind, wind up

Brought to a state of great tension.
- usage: "all wound up for a fight"
- synonyms: aroused

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