wound in English dictionary

  • wound

    Meanings and definitions of "wound"

    • An injury, such as a cut or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
    • A hurt to a person's feelings.
    • (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
    • (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
    • (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
    • Simple past tense and past participle of wind.
    • noun
      An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
    • noun
      (criminal law)
      An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
    • verb
      simple past tense and past participle of [i]wind[/i]
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To hurt (a person's feelings).
    • injury
    • something that offends a person’s feelings
    • an injury to a person by which the skin is divided
    • hurt or injure
    • hurt (someone's feelings)
    • To cause physical harm to a living creature.
    • A type of injury in which in skin or tisue is torn, cut, punctured or otherwise hurt.
    • adjective
      put in a coil
    • noun
      an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
    • noun
      a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
    • noun
      a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her breast lives the silent wound"; "The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it"--Robert Frost
    • noun
      the act of inflicting a wound
    • verb
      cause injuries or bodily harm to
    • verb
      hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

    Synonyms of "wound" in English dictionary

    suffering, provoke, personnel casualty are the top synonyms of "wound" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of wound

    • wound ( third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
    • wound ( plural  wounds)
    • wound (plural wounds)
    • wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
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