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Definition of 'WOUND'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) wound
an injury, usu. involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.

2. wound
a similar injury to the tissue of a plant.

3. wound
an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc.

4. (v.t.) wound
to inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt.

5. (v.i.) wound
to inflict a wound.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE wund, c. OS wunda, OHG wunta, ON und wound, Go wunds wounded)

Definition of 'WOUND'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) wound, lesion
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

2. (noun) wound, injury, combat injury
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

3. (noun) wound
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

4. (adj) wound, wounding
the act of inflicting a wound

5. (verb) wound
put in a coil

6. (verb) injure, wound
cause injuries or bodily harm to

7. (verb) hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
hurt the feelings of
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

Definition of 'WOUND'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) wound
an injury
serious wounds; a leg/head/chest etc. wound

2. (verb) wound
to injure or hurt
He was badly wounded in the explosion.; fatally wounded

3. wound
to upset
His cruel comments had wounded her pride.

Definition of 'WOUND'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) WOUND
a hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like

2. (noun) WOUND
fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc

3. (noun) WOUND
an injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity

4. (noun) WOUND
to hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like

5. (noun) WOUND
to hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to

6.  WOUND
of Wind

7.  WOUND
of Wind

8.  WOUND
imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing

Translation of 'WOUND'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a physical hurt or injury The wound that he had received in the war still gave him pain occasionally; He died from a bullet-wound.
Afrikaans: wond	Arabic: جُرْح	Bulgarian: рана
Brazilian: ferida	Czech: zranění	German: die Wunde
Danish: sår; -sår	Greek: τραύμα, πληγή	Spanish: herida
Estonian: haav	Farsi: زخم؛ جراحت	Finnish: haava
French: blessure	Hebrew: פֶּצָע	Hindi: घाव
Croatian: rana	Hungarian: seb	Indonesian: luka
Icelandic: sár	Italian: ferita	Japanese: 傷
Korean: 외상, 부상	Lithuanian: žaizda	Latvian: ievainojums
Malay: luka	Dutch: wonde	Norwegian: sår
Polish: rana	Persian: زخم؛ جراحت	Pashto: ټپ، زخم، پرهار، توهين: صد
Portuguese: ferida	Romanian: rană	Russian: ранение
Slovak: rana, zranenie	Slovenian: rana	Serbian: rana
Swedish: skada, sår	Thai: บาดแผล	Turkish: yara
Taiwanese: 傷口	Ukrainian: рана; поранення	Urdu: زخم
Vietnamese: vết thương	Chinese: 伤口
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