What part of speech is winded?

Winded can be categorized as an adjective and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. winded is a verb, past participle of wind (infinitive).
  • 2. winded is a verb, past simple of wind (infinitive).
  • 3. winded is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • winded 
    more winded
    most winded
  • Positive: winded 
  • Comparative: more winded
  • Superlative: most winded

What does winded mean?

Definitions

Adjective
winded - breathing laboriously or convulsively

Verb
wind - arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
wind - extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
wind - coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
wind - raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
wind - catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
wind - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
wind - form into a wreath
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Examples of winded

#   Sentence  
1. adj. I felt winded after running up the stairs.
2. adj. Tom looks winded.
3. adj. You look a little winded.
4. adj. I'm winded.
5. adj. You look winded.
6. adj. He's winded.
7. adj. He looks winded.
8. adj. Tom can't run very far without getting winded.
9. verb He winded himself when he fell off the swing.
10. verb Tom is winded.
11. verb The road winded through the fields.
12. verb But now the vault which had covered the fountain being broken down and riven, and the Gothic font ruined and demolished, the stream burst forth from the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source.
13. verb Every bicyclist knows his own natural pace, and when departing from that must expect to be winded sooner or later.
14. verb Wind your watch.
15. verb I've modified my Holga 120 to take 35mm film and I know that you can't wind the film back, you have to open the back of the camera (in a darkroom) to rewind the film.
16. verb If he carries on like this, he's going to wind up in prison.
17. verb Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
18. verb I think it's time to wind up this meeting.
19. verb I never thought it would wind up like this.
20. verb I forgot to wind my watch up, so it stopped.
21. verb The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
22. verb When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
23. verb If you wind up the doll with the key on the side of its torso it will swing its arms round and go forward doing somersaults.
24. noun When there is no wind, row.
25. noun He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind.
26. noun That's a lot of wind.
27. noun The collision knocked the wind out of him.
Sentence  
adj.
I felt winded after running up the stairs.
Tom looks winded.
You look a little winded.
I'm winded.
You look winded.
He's winded.
He looks winded.
Tom can't run very far without getting winded.
verb
He winded himself when he fell off the swing.
Tom is winded.
The road winded through the fields.
But now the vault which had covered the fountain being broken down and riven, and the Gothic font ruined and demolished, the stream burst forth from the recess of the earth in open day, and winded its way among the broken sculpture and moss-grown stones which lay in confusion around its source.
Every bicyclist knows his own natural pace, and when departing from that must expect to be winded sooner or later.
Wind your watch.
I've modified my Holga 120 to take 35mm film and I know that you can't wind the film back, you have to open the back of the camera (in a darkroom) to rewind the film.
If he carries on like this, he's going to wind up in prison.
Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
I think it's time to wind up this meeting.
I never thought it would wind up like this.
I forgot to wind my watch up, so it stopped.
The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.
If you wind up the doll with the key on the side of its torso it will swing its arms round and go forward doing somersaults.
noun
When there is no wind, row.
He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind.
That's a lot of wind.
The collision knocked the wind out of him.
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