Definitions for wound
wund; Older Use and Literary waʊndwound

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. wound, lesionnoun

   an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

2. wound, injury, combat injurynoun

   a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

3. woundnoun

   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. wound, woundingadjective

   the act of inflicting a wound

5. woundverb

   put in a coil

6. injure, woundverb

   cause injuries or bodily harm to

7. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

   hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Wound

   of Wind

2. Wound

   of Wind

3. Wound

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

4. Woundnoun

   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

5. Woundnoun

   fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc

6. Woundnoun

   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

7. Woundnoun

   to hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like

8. Woundnoun

   to hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to

9. Etymology: [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. 140. Cf. Zounds.]

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1. Wound

   A wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured, or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion. In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Wound

   wownd, pa.t. and pa.p. of wind.

2. Wound

   wōōnd, n. any division of soft parts, including the skin, produced by external mechanical force—whether incised, punctured, contused, lacerated, or poisoned: any cut, bruise, hurt, or injury.—v.t. to make a wound in: to injure.—adj. Woun′dable, capable of being wounded.—n. Woun′der.—adv. Woun′dily (coll.), excessively.—n. Woun′ding.—adj. Wound′less, exempt from being wounded, invulnerable: harmless.—n. Wound′wort, a name applied to several plants of popular repute as vulneraries, as the kidney-vetch, &c.: a plant of genus Stachys, the marsh or clown's woundwort.—adj. Woun′dy, causing wounds: (coll.) excessive. [A.S. wund (Ger. wunde, Ice. und)—A.S. wund, wounded; prob. orig. pa.p. of A.S. winnan, to fight, strive.]

Matched Categories

1. • Arouse
   • Hurt
   • Injury
   • Suffering

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wound' in Nouns Frequency: #1756

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'wound' in Verbs Frequency: #1005

How to pronounce wound?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wound in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wound in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of wound in a Sentence

1. Scottish Proverb:

   A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

2. Eric Toschlog:

   I have not seen a wound of this severity, ever.

3. Mahmood Shivji:

   Theres still tons to be learned from these evolutionary marvels, including information that will potentially be useful to fight cancer and age-related diseases, and improve wound healing treatments in humans, as we uncover how these animals do it.

4. Amee Gharbi:

   Despite what one self-absorbed, heartless killer tried to do, in the end we won, in the end we wound up with the most points. We have the most self-worth. Game over.

5. William Hazlitt:

   The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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