Definitions for wound
wund; Older Use and Literary waʊndwound

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

1. wound, lesion(noun)

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

2. wound, injury, combat injury(noun)

   a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

3. wound(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

4. wound, wounding(adj)

   the act of inflicting a wound

5. wound(verb)

   put in a coil

6. injure, wound(verb)

   cause injuries or bodily harm to

7. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite(verb)

   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

   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.]

2. Wound

   of Wind

   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.]

3. Wound

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

   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.]

4. Wound(noun)

   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

   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.]

5. Wound(noun)

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

   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.]

6. Wound(noun)

   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

   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.]

7. Wound(noun)

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

   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.]

8. Wound(noun)

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

   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.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.]

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?

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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. Tayyip Erdogan:

   I will personally follow the case so that they will be given the heaviest penalty. I am already following the case. Violence against women is the bleeding wound of our country.

2. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro:

   A high tide of 187 cm is going to leave an indelible wound.

3. Cervantes:

   Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them.

4. William Shakespeare:

   How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

5. Zlatko Kopecki:

   Novel antibiotics or targeted antitoxin treatments are required, as wound infection is a serious problem for thousands of patients with chronic wounds.

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