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wound1 /wuːnd /noun1An injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken: a knife wound chest wounds a wound to the thigh...- He had sustained fractures to his skull, pelvis, and lower back, chest wounds and a broken arm.
- He received a number of stitches for knife wounds to his chest and arm.
- He also had two stitches put in a wound to his scalp after being taken by ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.
Synonyms injury, lesion, cut, gash, laceration, tear, rent, puncture, slash; sore, graze, scratch, scrape, abrasion; bruise, contusion; Medicine trauma, traumatism 1.1An injury to a person’s feelings or reputation: the new crisis has opened old wounds...- You try to rekindle old flames and remember the past and tend to open old emotional wounds.
- In a short period of time old wounds were opened up and picked over, and legal assumptions about historical restitution were overturned.
- Reminiscing, the thought opens up old wounds for the proud Clare man.
Synonyms insult, blow, slight, offence, affront; hurt, harm, damage, injury, pain, pang, ache, distress, grief, trauma, anguish, torment, torture verb [with object]1Inflict a wound on: the sergeant was seriously wounded (as adjective wounded) a wounded soldier...- When soldiers surrounded the house, Mr Shwairah let off eight bursts of gunfire, seriously wounding one of the soldiers.
- Three of the soldiers that I knew as comrades were seriously wounded by shrapnel and gunfire.
- He still remembers the day when a deer unexpectedly attacked a former zoo official, seriously wounding him in the arm.
Synonyms injure, hurt, damage, harm, maim, mutilate, disable, incapacitate, scar; lacerate, cut, cut to ribbons, graze, scratch, gash, tear, tear apart, hack, rip, puncture, pierce, stab, slash informal zap, plug, blast 1.1Injure (a person’s feelings): you really wounded his pride when you turned him down...- Challenges of this kind confront their notion of who they are, puncturing their complacency and wounding their egos, so that they are rarely able to resist responding.
- That purge is wounding enough interests and egos to explain the current rift in the party, whatever else might be hidden in its depths.
- It's a problem, and it's often more than a matter of not wounding a buddy's ego.
Synonyms hurt, hurt the feelings of, scar, damage, harm, injure, insult, slight, offend, give offence to, affront, distress, disturb, upset, make miserable, trouble, discomfort; grieve, sadden, mortify, anguish, pain, sting, cut to the quick, shock, traumatize, cause suffering to, torment, torture, crucify, tear to pieces, gnaw at Derivativeswoundingly /ˈwuːndɪŋli/ adverb ...- He can also be sharply, woundingly funny about ‘awful old England’, whose charms are not always obvious.
- More woundingly than that, to be beaten into submission by such otherwise enfeebled opponents would damn him in the eyes of his friends.
- She told him, quite woundingly, that he had not been so dejected when his own mother died.
woundless adjective ...- I lifted my shirt, revealing my woundless stomach.
- A pitiful thousand men left from our large expedition stood up to join me, almost none woundless.
- Everyone can turn a blind eye to the woundless slashes of the lying tongue, the cruel word, the baleful onslaught.
OriginOld English wund (noun), wundian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wond and German Wunde, of unknown ultimate origin. Rhymesabound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, impound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), underground wound2 /waʊnd / Past and past participle of wind2. wound3 /wound / Alternate past and past participle of wind1. |