Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overwind
Participle: overwound
Gerund: overwinding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overwind |
| you | overwind |
| he;she;it | overwinds |
| we | overwind |
| you | overwind |
| they | overwind |
Perfect
| I | have overwound |
| you | have overwound |
| he;she;it | has overwound |
| we | have overwound |
| you | have overwound |
| they | have overwound |
Past
| I | overwound |
| you | overwound |
| he;she;it | overwound |
| we | overwound |
| you | overwound |
| they | overwound |
Pluperfect
| I | had overwound |
| you | had overwound |
| he;she;it | had overwound |
| we | had overwound |
| you | had overwound |
| they | had overwound |
Future
| I | will overwind |
| you | will overwind |
| he;she;it | will overwind |
| we | will overwind |
| you | will overwind |
| they | will overwind |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overwound |
| you | will have overwound |
| he;she;it | will have overwound |
| we | will have overwound |
| you | will have overwound |
| they | will have overwound |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overwind |
| you | overwind |
| he;she;it | overwind |
| we | overwind |
| you | overwind |
| they | overwind |
Perfect
| I | have overwound |
| you | have overwound |
| he;she;it | have overwound |
| we | have overwound |
| you | have overwound |
| they | have overwound |
Imperfect
| I | overwound |
| you | overwound |
| he;she;it | overwound |
| we | overwound |
| you | overwound |
| they | overwound |
Pluperfect
| I | had overwound |
| you | had overwound |
| he;she;it | had overwound |
| we | had overwound |
| you | had overwound |
| they | had overwound |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overwind |
| you | would overwind |
| he;she;it | would overwind |
| we | would overwind |
| you | would overwind |
| they | would overwind |
Perfect
| I | would have overwound |
| you | would have overwound |
| he;she;it | would have overwound |
| we | would have overwound |
| you | would have overwound |
| they | would have overwound |
Imperative
| you | overwind |
| we | Let's overwind |
| you | overwind |
Verbs conjugated like 'overwind'
bind,
fight,
find,
grind,
overwind,
rebind,
regrind,
unwind,
wind,
atwind,
autowind,
befight,
befind,
bewind,
copyfight,
cryogrind,
debind,
dogfight,
fault-find,
faultfind, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overwind'
overbind,
overwin,
overwing,
overbend,
overbid,
overfund,
overgild,
overgird,
overhand,
overhend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From over- + wind.
Sample Sentences
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People also come in full of misgivings about "overwinding" their watches. "You can't overwind a watch - you can only underwind it," said McKelvey. [1989 July 4, Jacquin Sanders, “What makes a watchmaker tick?”, in St. Petersburg Times:]
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In a typical Morris cock-snook at classical technique, tutu-ed dancers prance Bambi-like across the stage. On and off, on and off, with fixed smiles like overwound clockwork dolls: it should have been charming and funny, but despite stylish individual efforts, the ragged ensemble meant the joke fell flat. [1996 April 21, Jenny Gilbert, “Golden oldies reveal the three faces of Ashton”, in The Independent:]
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I met him 10 years ago in a hallway in Harrisburg and departed with the image of a man whose psyche approximated a badly overwound clock: Everything is tight and in place, but nothing's moving. [2000 December 16, Dennis Roddy, “The unbearable lightness of being Al Gore”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:]
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DNA's helical structure implies that twisting and stretching should be coupled, hence the prediction that DNA should unwind when stretched […] That is why it was such surprise when we directly measured twist-stretch coupling to find instead DNA overwinds when stretched. [2006 August 7, “Surprise Finding for Stretched DNA. [summary]”, in Ascribe Higher Education News Service:]