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REWIND
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Irregular inflected form: rewound
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rewind ... he / she / it rewinds
Past simple: rewound
-ing form: rewinding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
the mechanical watch needs rewinding every day
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "rewind" is one way to...):
wind; wind up (coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something