wound
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA(key): /wuːnd/
- (US) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA(key): /wund/
- (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA(key): /waʊnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːnd
Noun[edit]
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 3]:
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Synonyms[edit]
- (injury): injury, lesion
- (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived terms[edit]
- axe wound
- Blighty wound
- defense wound
- defensive wound
- dirty wound
- entrance wound
- entry wound
- exit wound
- flesh wound
- gutter wound
- hatchet wound
- hesitation wound
- keyhole wound
- lick one's wounds
- open wound
- rub salt in the wound
- salt in the wound
- self-defense wound
- stab wound
- tentative wound
- time heals all wounds
- time heals every wound
- turn the knife in the wound
- twist the knife in the wound
- wound gall
Translations[edit]
injury
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something that offends a person’s feelings
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an injury to a person by which the skin is divided
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Verb[edit]
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
- (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
Usage notes[edit]
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.
Synonyms[edit]
- (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
- (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend
Translations[edit]
hurt or injure
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hurt (someone's feelings)
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Etymology 2[edit]
See wind (Etymology 2)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
wound
- simple past and past participle of wind
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
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