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单词 wind (sth) down
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wind (sth) down

phrasal verb with wind uk/waɪnd/us/waɪnd/verb wound, wound

to end gradually or in stages, or to cause something to do this:

The government intends to wind the scheme down in the spring.
Unfortunately, the party was just winding down as we got there.

If a business or organization winds down, or if someone winds it down, the amount of work it does is gradually reduced until it closes completely:

They're winding down their operations abroad because they're losing money.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Causing something to end

  • abandon
  • all good things (must) come to an end idiom
  • and have done with it idiom
  • be over the hump idiom
  • bitter
  • draw
  • knock off (sth)
  • lay
  • lay sth to rest idiom
  • lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
  • leave it at that idiom
  • leave off (sth/doing sth)
  • lift
  • raise
  • stone-dead
  • suppression
  • the curtain falls on sth idiom
  • to the bitter end idiom
  • top sth off
  • walk

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