Answer to "Wound down" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ABATED , but the solution may also be ENDED which is one of the most recent solution (2019 in USA Today).

Wound down crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ABATED	40 %	6
WANED	40 %	5
ENDED	20 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Wound down

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• winding down
• wind down
• taper off
• die down
• closedown
• ramp down
• shutdown
• tapering off
• cut down
• play down
• shut off
• deescalate

Crossword Answer definitions

ABATED verb

1. (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
2. To become null and void.
3. To nullify; make void.
4. To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
5. To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
6. To curtail; to deprive.
7. To reduce in amount, size, or value.
8. To decrease in size, value, or amount.
9. To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
10. To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
11. To deduct or omit.
12. To bar or except.
13. To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
14. To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
15. To destroy, or level to the ground.

ABATED verb

1. To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.

ABATED adjective

1. (decorative arts) Lowered, beaten down, or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief. Used specifically of stone-cutting; also of metal when the pattern or inscription is to show bright on dark, and the ground is therefore worked out with the graving-tool and left rough or hatched in lines.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ABATED

• Subsided
• Ebbed
• Slackened
• Waned
• Let up
• Tapered off
• Eased off
• Ran the course
• Became less intense
• Reduced in intensity

More clues leading to the result WANED

• Fell off
• Went down
• Gradually declined
• Declined in power
• Tapered off
• Dwindled
• Approached third quarter, say
• Lost strength
• Subsided
• Backed off

More clues leading to the result ENDED

• All over
• Wrapped up
• Drew to a close
• Finished
• Over
• Wound up
• Came to a conclusion
• Through
• Pulled the plug on
• Finito