wound

Plural: wounds

Noun

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
• a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
• a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); ; ; --Robert Frost
  • "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"
• the act of inflicting a wound
• An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Verb

Verb Forms: wounded, wounding, wounds

• To inflict an injury, especially a cut or puncture.
• cause injuries or bodily harm to
• hurt the feelings of
• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
• extend in curves and turns
• arrange or or coil around
• catch the scent of; get wind of
• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
• form into a wreath
• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
• To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• To hurt (a person's feelings).
• simple past and past participle of wind

Adjective Satellite

• put in a coil

Examples

• His opponent’s unexpected triple-word score did wound his confidence.
• It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
• The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
• The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

Synonyms

bruise, combat injury, curve, hoist, hurt, injure, injury, lesion, lift, meander, nose, offend, roll, scent, spite, thread, twine, twist, wander, weave, wind, wind up, wounding, wrap, wreathe, abuse, ache, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, annoy, bewound, burn, carry, cut down, damage, damnify, dere, dis, disrespect, diss, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, excruciate, forwork, give stick, grieve, harm, harrow, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, insult, irritate, lapidate, maul, misbid, misdo, misrespect, misuse, pang, pine, put someone in hospital, qualifier, rack, scaith, scathe, sledge, slight, slur, sneap, throe, torment, torture, vulnerate, wet, wound, wring

Antonyms

unwind

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