Usually means: Cause someone to feel frightened.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. put the wind up, put the wind up (someone): Merriam-Webster
  2. put the wind up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put the wind up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. put the wind up: Wiktionary
  5. put the wind up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. put the wind up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put the wind up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put the wind up: Medical dictionary

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  1. put the wind up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (put the wind up)

verb:  (informal, transitive, British) To frighten or disturb.

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