Noun
She suffered a knife wound to her thigh.
Her mother’s scorn left a wound that never healed.
Verb
Four people were seriously wounded in the explosion.
The soldier’s leg was wounded by a grenade.
Losing the match wounded his pride .
Recent Examples on the Web
She was taken to the hospital where she was admitted and may have to undergo surgery for those open wounds.
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Officers found an 18-year-old Whitefish Bay woman on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds, and began life-saving measures until North Shore Fire Department arrived.
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The Suns still had open wounds from last Sunday’s 124-120 loss at Oklahoma City where the Thunder finished 29-of-36 from the line to Phoenix going 17-of-24.
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La Mesa police responded just after 9:30 p.m. and found the victim, a 32-year-old motel guest, unresponsive with gunshot wounds to his chest, neck, and head.
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Officers found the couple with gunshot wounds to the upper body.
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Two people, a man and a woman, were found with gunshot wounds in a vehicle, police said Friday evening.
—Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
As the crowd clapped, emotions were bittersweet to the family tending to this open wound.
—The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2023
One was killed, and the other showed up wounded on Hope Street a few blocks away.
—John Spink, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
Negroponte was staying there, and officers found Rasmussen mortally wounded inside.
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New details about the 64-year-old gambler who killed 58 Las Vegas concertgoers and wounded hundreds more on Oct. 1, 2017, were revealed in a trove of documents released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week.
—Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, both members of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, fatally wounded the shooter, police said.
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For another, because the receiver still wound up misled.
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Among the widespread disruption, the war has curbed the care that can be provided to those who are terminally ill—including soldiers wounded on the front lines.
—WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
The attack marked the 19th shooting at a school or university so far in 2023 that left at least one person wounded, a CNN count shows.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
Prosecutors are still evaluating additional charges for the man accused of shooting and killing a Huntsville police officer, as well as wounding another officer and a woman on Tuesday.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
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[ woond; Older Use and Literary wound ]
/ wund; Older Use and Literary waʊnd /
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noun
an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
a similar injury to the tissue of a plant.
an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc.
verb (used with object)
to inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt.
verb (used without object)
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Idioms about wound
lick one’s wounds, to attempt to heal one’s injuries or soothe one’s hurt feelings after a defeat.
Origin of wound
1
First recorded before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English wund; cognate with Old High German wunta (German Wunde ), Old Norse und, Gothic wunds; (verb) Middle English wounden, Old English wundian, derivative of the noun
synonym study for wound
OTHER WORDS FROM wound
wound·ed·ly, adverbwound·ing·ly, adverb
Words nearby wound
wouldn’t dream of, would rather, wouldst, would that, Woulfe bottle, wound, wounded, Wounded Knee, woundfin, woundwort, wourali
Other definitions for wound (2 of 2)
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of wind2 and wind3.
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Words related to wound
bruise, cut, damage, grief, laceration, lesion, pain, shock, trauma, harm, hit, hurt, injure, traumatize, anguish, distress, gash, heartbreak, insult, pang
How to use wound in a sentence
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She was found with several wounds on her body and her face was disfigured.
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“They had to be taken to the hospital that night for their wounds to be stitched, but thankfully no one lost their life,” he said.
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I wound up working for him for a few summers when we were in our early 20s.
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To be sure, a majority of the 1,126 workers we looked at wound up in software and internet-focused industries, which include unsurprising names like Apple, Alphabet, and IBM.
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Repair cells, for example, send out filopodia to detect chemical cues to navigate to wound sites.
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Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
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But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.
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As the interview wound down, Bentivolio reflected on what may have motivated him to dress as Santa.
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But others say a still-unidentified man likely fired the round that caused a lethal head wound.
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The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.
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The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird’s-nest.
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Ripperda’s equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.
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It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
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The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.
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After this it wound along on ridges and in ravines till it reached the heart of a great pine forest, where stood a saw-mill.
British Dictionary definitions for wound (1 of 2)
noun
any break in the skin or an organ or part as the result of violence or a surgical incision
an injury to plant tissue
any injury or slight to the feelings or reputation
verb
to inflict a wound or wounds upon (someone or something)
Derived forms of wound
woundable, adjectivewounder, nounwounding, adjectivewoundingly, adverb
woundless, adjective
Word Origin for wound
Old English wund; related to Old Frisian wunde, Old High German wunta (German Wunde), Old Norse und, Gothic wunds
British Dictionary definitions for wound (2 of 2)
verb
the past tense and past participle of wind 2
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Other Idioms and Phrases with wound
see lick one’s wounds; rub in (salt into a wound).
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wound 1
(wo͞ond)
n.
1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
2. An injury to the feelings.
v. wound·ed, wound·ing, wounds
v.tr.
To inflict wounds or a wound on.
v.intr.
To inflict wounds or a wound: harsh criticism that wounds.
wound′ed·ly adv.
wound′ing·ly adv.
wound 2
(wound)
v.
Past tense and past participle of wind2.
wound 3
(wound)
v. Music
A past tense and a past participle of wind3.
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wound
(wuːnd)
n
1. (Pathology) any break in the skin or an organ or part as the result of violence or a surgical incision
2. (Botany) an injury to plant tissue
3. any injury or slight to the feelings or reputation
vb
to inflict a wound or wounds upon (someone or something)
[Old English wund; related to Old Frisian wunde, Old High German wunta (German Wunde), Old Norse und, Gothic wunds]
ˈwoundable adj
ˈwounder n
ˈwounding adj
ˈwoundingly adv
ˈwoundless adj
wound
(waʊnd)
vb
the past tense and past participle of wind2
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
wound1
(wund; Older Use and Literary waʊnd)
n.
1. an injury, usu. involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
2. a similar injury to the tissue of a plant.
3. an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc.
v.t.
4. to inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt.
v.i.
5. to inflict a wound.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English wund, c. Old Saxon wunda, Old High German wunta, Old Norse und wound, Gothic wunds wounded]
wound′ed•ly, adv.
wound′ing•ly, adv.
wound2
(waʊnd)
v.
Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
wound
1. form and pronunciation
Wound is pronounced (/waʊnd/) or (/wuːnd/).
When it is pronounced (/waʊnd/), it is a past tense and past participle of the verb wind.
When wound is pronounced (/wuːnd/), it is a noun or a verb.
2. used as a noun
A wound is damage to part of your body, caused by a gun, knife, or other weapon.
…a soldier with a leg wound.
The wound is healing nicely.
3. used as a verb
If someone wounds you, they damage your body using a weapon.
He had been badly wounded in the fighting.
He was wounded in the leg.
4. ‘injury’
When someone is hurt in an accident, such as a car crash or a natural disaster, you do not say that they receive a ‘wound’ or that they ‘are wounded’. You say that they receive an injury or are injured.
A fall on the head is a common injury for a baby.
12 people died and 40 were injured in the crash.
Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012
wound
Past participle: wounded
Gerund: wounding
| Imperative |
|---|
| wound |
| wound |
| Present |
|---|
| I wound |
| you wound |
| he/she/it wounds |
| we wound |
| you wound |
| they wound |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I wounded |
| you wounded |
| he/she/it wounded |
| we wounded |
| you wounded |
| they wounded |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am wounding |
| you are wounding |
| he/she/it is wounding |
| we are wounding |
| you are wounding |
| they are wounding |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have wounded |
| you have wounded |
| he/she/it has wounded |
| we have wounded |
| you have wounded |
| they have wounded |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was wounding |
| you were wounding |
| he/she/it was wounding |
| we were wounding |
| you were wounding |
| they were wounding |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had wounded |
| you had wounded |
| he/she/it had wounded |
| we had wounded |
| you had wounded |
| they had wounded |
| Future |
|---|
| I will wound |
| you will wound |
| he/she/it will wound |
| we will wound |
| you will wound |
| they will wound |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have wounded |
| you will have wounded |
| he/she/it will have wounded |
| we will have wounded |
| you will have wounded |
| they will have wounded |
| Future Continuous |
|---|
| I will be wounding |
| you will be wounding |
| he/she/it will be wounding |
| we will be wounding |
| you will be wounding |
| they will be wounding |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been wounding |
| you have been wounding |
| he/she/it has been wounding |
| we have been wounding |
| you have been wounding |
| they have been wounding |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been wounding |
| you will have been wounding |
| he/she/it will have been wounding |
| we will have been wounding |
| you will have been wounding |
| they will have been wounding |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been wounding |
| you had been wounding |
| he/she/it had been wounding |
| we had been wounding |
| you had been wounding |
| they had been wounding |
| Conditional |
|---|
| I would wound |
| you would wound |
| he/she/it would wound |
| we would wound |
| you would wound |
| they would wound |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have wounded |
| you would have wounded |
| he/she/it would have wounded |
| we would have wounded |
| you would have wounded |
| they would have wounded |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. | wound — an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
lesion harm, hurt, injury, trauma — any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. raw wound — a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue stigmata — marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ abrasion, excoriation, scratch, scrape — an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off gash, slash, slice, cut — a wound made by cutting; «he put a bandage over the cut» laceration — a torn ragged wound bite — a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person |
| 2. | wound — a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
combat injury, injury blighty wound — a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad flesh wound — a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones personnel casualty, loss — military personnel lost by death or capture armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine — the military forces of a nation; «their military is the largest in the region»; «the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker» |
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| 3. | wound — 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
distress, hurt, suffering — psychological suffering; «the death of his wife caused him great distress» |
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| 4. | wound — the act of inflicting a wound
wounding scathe, damage, harm, hurt — the act of damaging something or someone |
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| Verb | 1. | wound — cause injuries or bodily harm to
injure hurt — give trouble or pain to; «This exercise will hurt your back» trample — injure by trampling or as if by trampling; «The passerby was trampled by an elephant» concuss — injure the brain; sustain a concussion calk — injure with a calk excruciate, torture, torment — subject to torture; «The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible» overstretch, pull — strain abnormally; «I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up»; «The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition» traumatise, traumatize, shock — inflict a trauma upon maim — injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; «people were maimed by the explosion» sprain, wrick, rick, wrench, twist, turn — twist suddenly so as to sprain; «wrench one’s ankle»; «The wrestler twisted his shoulder»; «the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell»; «I turned my ankle and couldn’t walk for several days» subluxate — sprain or dislocate slightly; «subluxate the hip» handicap, incapacitate, invalid, disable — injure permanently; «He was disabled in a car accident» harm — cause or do harm to; «These pills won’t harm your system» run over, run down — injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle fracture, break — fracture a bone of; «I broke my foot while playing hockey» shoot, pip, hit — hit with a missile from a weapon knife, stab — use a knife on; «The victim was knifed to death» skin, scrape — bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; «The boy skinned his knee when he fell» bruise, contuse — injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; «I bruised my knee» graze — break the skin (of a body part) by scraping; «She was grazed by the stray bullet» |
| 2. | wound — hurt the feelings of; «She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests»; «This remark really bruised my ego»
spite, bruise, injure, offend, hurt affront, diss, insult — treat, mention, or speak to rudely; «He insulted her with his rude remarks»; «the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone» arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise — call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); «arouse pity»; «raise a smile»; «evoke sympathy» lacerate — deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; «his lacerating remarks» sting — cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; «His remark stung her» abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify — cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; «He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss» |
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| Adj. | 1. | wound — put in a coil
coiled — curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); «a coiled snake ready to strike»; «the rope lay coiled on the deck» |
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
wound
noun
2. (often plural) trauma, injury, shock, pain, offence, slight, torture, distress, insult, grief, torment, anguish, heartbreak, pang, sense of loss Her experiences have left deep psychological wounds.
verb
1. injure, cut, hit, damage, wing, hurt, harm, slash, pierce, irritate, gash, lacerate The driver of the bus was wounded by shrapnel.
2. offend, shock, pain, hurt, distress, annoy, sting, grieve, mortify, cut to the quick, hurt the feelings of, traumatize He was deeply wounded by the treachery of his closest friends.
Quotations
«what wound did ever heal but by degrees?» [William Shakespeare Othello]
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
wound
noun
1. Marked tissue damage, especially when produced by physical injury:
2. A state of physical or mental suffering:
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wretchedness.
verb
1. To cause physical damage to:
2. To inflict physical or mental injury or distress on:
3. To cause suffering or painful sorrow to:
The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
zranitránaranitporanit
sårsåre
vundo
haavahaavoittaaloukataloukkausvamma
ranaraniti
seb
cederaluka
særasármeiða
傷傷つける
상처상처를 입히다
aizvainotievainojumsievainot
ranaraniti
sårsåraskada
บาดเจ็บบาดแผล
gây tổn thươngvết thương
Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
wound
1 [wuːnd]
2. vt (also) (fig) → ferire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
wound2
(wuːnd) noun
a physical hurt or injury. The wound that he had received in the war still gave him pain occasionally; He died from a bullet-wound.
verb
1. to hurt or injure physically. He didn’t kill the animal – he just wounded it; He was wounded in the battle.
2. to hurt (someone’s feelings). to wound someone’s pride.
ˈwounded adjective
having been injured, especially in war etc. the wounded man.
noun plural
wounded people, especially soldiers. How many wounded are there?
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
wound
→ جُرْح, يَجْرَحُ rána, zranit sår, såre verletzen, Wunde πληγώνω, τραύμα herida, herir haava, haavoittaa blesser, blessure rana, raniti ferire, ferita 傷, 傷つける 상처, 상처를 입히다 verwonden, verwonding sår, såre rana, zranić ferida, ferir рана, ранить sår, såra บาดเจ็บ, บาดแผล yara, yaralamak gây tổn thương, vết thương 击伤, 创伤
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
wound
n. herida, lesión;
contused ___ → ___ contusa, lesión subcutánea;
gunshot ___ → ___ de bala;
penetrating ___ → ___ penetrante;
puncture ___ → ___ de punción, con un instrumento afilado;
___ debridement → desbridamiento de ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
wound
n herida; entrance — orificio de entrada; exit — orificio de salida; flesh — herida superficial (que no afecta ningún órgano); gunshot — herida de bala, balazo (fam); knife — cuchillada; penetrating — herida penetrante; puncture — herida punzante; stab — puñalada, cuchillada; vt herir
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
рана, ранение, обида, ущерб, оскорбление, ранить, поранить, причинять боль
существительное ↓
глагол ↓
- ранить
wounded in the head — раненный в голову 
- причинить боль; уколоть, задеть
to wound the ear — резать слух
wounded in his deepest affections — оскорблённый в своих лучших чувствах
- с.-х. скарифицировать (семена)
- past и p. p. от wind
- past и p. p. от wind
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
a sterile dressing for a wound — стерильная повязка на рану
the bandaged wound on the back of his head — перевязанная рана на затылке
cushy wound — лёгкая рана
deep wound — глубокая рана
to elude the wound — избежать ранения
fatal wound — смертельная рана
to give wound — наносить рану
quite a slight wound, just a graze of the arm — довольно лёгкое ранение, просто царапина на руке
gunshot wound — огнестрельная рана
mattering wound — гноящаяся рана, гнойник
medicable wound — излечимая рана
nasty wound — неприятная рана
Примеры с переводом
The wound left a deep scar.
После раны остался глубокий шрам.
The wound is nearly well.
Рана почти зажила.
The wound is healing slowly
Рана заживает медленно.
Make sure you keep the wound clean.
Следите, за тем чтобы рана была чистой. / Следите, за тем чтобы в рану не попадала грязь.
I’m afraid he’s wound up.
Боюсь, что он завёлся, и теперь его не остановишь.
I was too wound up to sleep.
Я был слишком взвинчен, чтобы уснуть.
The wound gushed blood.
Из раны хлынула кровь.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
I wound up wishing I’d never come. 
The doctors cauterized the wound.
The ointment will help heal the wound.
Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.
Возможные однокоренные слова
unwound — размотанный, незаведенный
wounded — раненый, уязвленный, оскорбленный, раненый
woundily — очень, чрезвычайно, крайне
wounding — скарификация, нанесение ран, поражение
woundy — очень, чрезвычайно, чертовски, чрезвычайный, чрезмерный
Формы слова
verb
I/you/we/they: wound
he/she/it: wounds
ing ф. (present participle): wounding
2-я ф. (past tense): wounded
3-я ф. (past participle): wounded
noun
ед. ч.(singular): wound
мн. ч.(plural): wounds
Other forms: wounded; wounds; wounding; woundingly; woundedly
A wound is a serious injury, especially a deep cut through the skin. But things like pride and feelings can also get wounded.
Wounds are serious: we’re talking a lot worse than just a scrape or booboo. Just about all the meanings of this word have to do with being hurt. If you got stabbed, you got a stab wound. Soldiers in battle get a lot of wounds from enemies. If someone told you to shut up, they might wound your feelings. If you slipped in a puddle in front of your friends, that might wound your pride.
Definitions of wound
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noun
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
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noun
the act of inflicting a wound
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noun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
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noun
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
“he feared that mentioning it might reopen the
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” -
verb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
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synonyms:
injure
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trample
injure by trampling or as if by trampling
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concuss
injure the brain; sustain a concussion
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calk
injure with a calk
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excruciate, torment, torture
subject to torture
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overstretch, pull
strain abnormally
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shock, traumatise, traumatize
inflict a trauma upon
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maim
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
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rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick
twist suddenly so as to sprain
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subluxate
sprain or dislocate slightly
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disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid
injure permanently
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harm
cause or do harm to
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run down, run over
injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
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break, fracture
fracture a bone of
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hit, pip, shoot
hit with a missile from a weapon
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knife, stab
use a knife on
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scrape, skin
bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
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bruise, contuse
injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
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graze
break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
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mace
spray with a liquid that irritates the eyes and temporarily disables a person
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rack
torture on the rack
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martyr, martyrise, martyrize
torture and torment like a martyr
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sicken
make sick or ill
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mar, mutilate
destroy or injure severely
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cripple, lame
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
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hock
disable by cutting the hock
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gun down
strike down or shoot down
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grass
shoot down, of birds
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kneecap
shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning
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poniard
stab with a poniard
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bayonet
stab or kill someone with a bayonet
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crush, jam
crush or bruise
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hurt
give trouble or pain to
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verb
hurt the feelings of
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synonyms:
bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite
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affront, diss, insult
treat, mention, or speak to rudely
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lacerate
deeply hurt the feelings of; distress
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sting
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
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abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify
cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
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crush, demolish, smash
humiliate or depress completely
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degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down
reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
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arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, pique, provoke, raise
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Definitions of wound
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coiled
curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
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coiled
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