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Meaning of put the wind up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To frighten or disturb.

British, informal, transitive

Examples

“P. G. Wodehouse I find⟳ it extraordinarily difficult to explain⟳ why it is that she has always put⟳ the wind up me to such a frightful extent.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

put the wood in the hole put the world to rights put through put through the mangle put through the mill put through the wringer

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