Есть ли разница между словами «injury» (увечье) и «wound» (рана), или они являются взаимозаменяемыми? Хотя между ними есть разница, их значения соприкасаются. Давайте подробнее рассмотрим разницу между этими cловами.
В современном английском существительное «wound» относится к любому увечью, которое повреждает плоть, а глагол «to wound» (ранить) означает «нанести увечье, повреждающее плоть». Например, полицейский, в которого стреляли, был ранен (wounded), а рабочий, упавший со стройки — injured (получил увечья).
- Two policemen were wounded in the street fight. – двое полицейских были ранены в уличной драке.
- Two workers were injured in the incident at the construction site. – двое рабочих получили увечья во время инцидента на стройке.
Дело в том, что оба лица из вышеуказанных примеров получили раны –«wounds», но полицейский были wounded, а рабочие — injured. Разница двух глаголов в том, что солдаты, полицейские получают ранение из-за намеренного действия со стороны других людей, тогда как все остальные получают увечья или раны во время какого-либо несчастного случая.
В дополнение к своим основным значениям, оба существительных и глагол приобрели фигуральные значения, например, обида может ранить:
- I was wounded by your words. – твои слова меня ранили.
Слово «wound» имеет эмоциональное значение, которое отсутствует у «injury», например, неправильно выполненная работа может нанести вред карьере (injure career), но также затронуть чувства (wound feelings). Таким образом «injure» (нанести вред) является более или менее нейтральным словом в эмоциональном смысле, а «wound» предполагает сильное эмоциональное недомогание или боль.
У слова «wound» в значении «физическая рана» есть много синонимов, которые более конкретно определяют характер раны:
- Lesion – повреждение
- Cut – порез
- Gash – глубокая рана
- Laceration – рваная рана
- Tear – разрыв
- Slash – глубокая рана
- Graze – царапина, легкая рана
- Scratch – царапина
- Abrasion – ссадина
- Bruise – синяк, ушиб
- Contusion – ушиб, контузия
У слова «wound» в значении «душевная рана» также много синонимов:
- Insult – обида, оскорбление
- Blow – удар, несчастье, невзгоды
- Slight – неуважение
- Offense – оскорбление
- Affront – преднамеренное, публичное оскорбление
- Hurt – обида, боль
- Pain – боль
- Distress – несчастье, горе
- Grief – печаль
- Anguish – тоска, мучение
- Torment – муки, страдания
Устойчивые словосочетания со словами wound и injury
И, наконец, предлагаем устойчивые словосочетания со словами «wound» и «injury», с которыми составлены легко запоминающиеся примеры:
- A fatal/ serious / severe wound was the reason of his death. — смертельная/серьезная рана была причиной его смерти.
- This slight/ light wound will be cured in some days. — эта лёгкая, незначительная рана заживет за несколько дней.
- The soldier received a wound and was hospitalized.— солдат получил ранение и был госпитализирован.
- We must clean a wound and then dress it. — мы должны промыть рану, а затем перевязать ее.
- Don’t lose a minute! We have to stop the wound. — не теряйте ни минуты! Мы должны остановить кровь из раны.
- My best friend inflicted a wound on me therefore it is so hurtful. — мой лучший друг нанес мне оскорбление, поэтому это так обидно.
- Only parents will help to lick the — только родители помогут прийти в себя после душевной раны (или физической травмы).
- It is a green wound, so be careful, it may bleed again. — рана свежая, поэтому осторожней, она может опять кровоточить.
- Your words reopened a wound. — ваши слова бередят старую рану.
- He was wounded in the arm/ leg/ head. — он был ранен в руку/ногу/голову.
- The terrible music wounds the ear. — ужасная музыка режет слух.
- Some people have suffered injuries in the car accident — несколько людей получили увечья в автокатастрофе.
- The muscle injury is very painful. — травма мышцы очень болезненна.
- A slight birth injury caused severe problems.— легкая родовая травма вызвала серьезные проблемы.
- This is a serious civil injury. — это серьезное гражданское правонарушение.
- We have suffered injury as a result of the average. — Мы пострадали в результате аварии.
Сегодня поговорим о том, в чем разница между словами injure, wound, hurt, harm и damage, а также выполним несколько упражнений для закрепления. Слова injure, wound, hurt, harm и damage можно отнести к так называемым CONFUSING WORDS, то есть к словам, которые легко перепутать в английском языке.
Вероятно, Вам также полезны будут эти статьи:
- Adapt, adept, adopt – разница, значение, упражнения,
- Lay и lie: разница, правила и упражнения
- Comfortable или convenient
Во-первых, для того, чтобы определить разницу между этими словами разделим их на три группы:
- Слова hurt, injure и wound – относятся к живому человеку,
- Слово damage – к предметам и абстрактным понятиям.
- Слова harm и ruin могут относится как к предметам, так и к живым людям.
Ознакомьтесь с инфо графикой, а затем перейдем к правилам.
HURT
Слово HURT (глагол) означает чувствовать боль или причинять боль:
My eyes hurt – мои глаза болят.
Ouch! Don’t touch me. That hurts! – Не трогай меня. Мне больно!
Слово hurt также изредка используется в качестве существительного в значении “боль”.
The hurt that Olga felt was deep. – Боль, которую испытывала Ольга, была глубокой.
Слово Hurt также используется в выражении hurt someone’s feelings – причинять эмоциональную боль.
INJURE
Injure – травмировать, повреждать
Слово INJURE (глагол) означает нанести телесное повреждение в результате борьбы или несчастного случая.
Например:
The bombs seriously injured scores of people. – Бомбы серьезно ранили десятки людей.
The demonstrators injured some passers-by when they started throwing stones. – Демонстранты ранили несколько прохожих камнями.
От слова injure образованы слова
- injured – раненный
- injury — ренение
Their injuries were serious. – Их ранения были серьезными.
He was not seriously injured. – Он не был серьезно ранен.
WOUND
Wound — ранить, ранение
Слово WOUND (глагол) – означает ранить каким-либо оружием – будь то холодным или огнестрельным.
The soldier was mortally wounded by the enemy fire. – Солдат был смертельно ранен огнем вражеских орудий.
He was wounded by the shrapnel. – Он был ранен шрапнелью.
Слово wound также переводится как “огнестрельное ранение”.
Слово wounded переводится как “раненый (ножом, оружием)”
Также обратите внимание на следующие устойчивые выражения:
to rub salt into the wound – сыпать соль на рану,
to lick one’s wounds – зализывать раны постепенно выздоравливать.
Обратите внимание на следующие словосочетания:
- badly hurt
- seriously injured
- mortally wounded
DAMAGE
Damage – повреждать, наносить ущерб / вред
Слово DAMAGE (глагол / существительное) – в значении “вредить / вред” относится к предметам и абстрактным понятиям.
“Damage is the physical harm that is caused to an object”.
The car was damaged in the accident. – Машина была повреждена в аварии.
His reputation as a lawyer was damaged. — Его репутация адвоката была запятнана.
Inflation damaged the country’s economy. — Инфляция нанесла урон экономике страны.
What’s the damage? – Каков ущерб?
Обратите внимание на словосочетания:
- being brain-damaged
- suffering brain damage
RUIN
Ruin – повреждать, погубить, нанести большой ущерб (превратить в руины)
Слово Ruin применимо только к как к одушевленным, так и к неодушевленным существительным. В основном употребляется со зданиями, планами, идеями, организациями.
The scandal has totally ruined the company. – Скандал полностью погубил компанию.
If there’s a scandal I’ll be ruined!
HARM
Harm – наносить вред, повреждать
Слово HARM может относиться как к людям, так и к предметам.
The bank robbers did not harm anyone. – Грабители никого не ранили.
Burning of fossil fuels harms the environment. — Сжигание ископаемого топлива наносит вред окружающей среде
Устойчивые выражения с harm.
- will come to no harm,
- it will do no harm to…,
- there’s no harm in…,
- no harm done
Производные от harm прилагательные — harmful (вредный)/ harmless (безвредный)
УПРАЖНЕНИЯ.
Упражнение 1. Вставьте: wound or injury.
- Ramirez was examining the gunshot ___________.
- The patient received the __________ of the spinal cord in road accident in 1991
- The post-surgical period was normal, the _________ healed with primary adhesion.
- Their buildings to defend them from all_______ of cold and heat.
- A tight-fitting helmet is designed to protect a skier’s head from__________.
Упражнение 2. Вставьте injure, hurt, harm, damage, ruin
- Sally has _________his feelings and mine too.
- You did no _______.
- Infants with bacterial meningitis are particularly prone to structural _______ of the brain
- My head spun, and my ribs ________.
- The storm has done much _________ to the house
- Their efforts are more likely to do ________ than good.
- I want to revenge myself and ________ him!
- I want to listen and I do listen, there’s no _________ in that.
- Be careful, otherwise, you may _______ your knee
- The shrapnel also hit a school, causing some _________.
- Be polite or you will ________ her pride
- I am his worst enemy; I shall _______ his future.
- Does it_________ much, Avdeev?
Ответы:
Exercise 1. 1 wound, 2 injury, 3 wound, 4 injuries, 5 injuries
Exercise 2. 1 hurt, 2 harm, 3 damage, 4 hurt, 5 damage, 6 harm, 7 ruin, 8 harm, 9 injure, 10 damage, 11 injure, 12 ruin, 13 hurt
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ABC Radio News (June 10th) reported a gunfight at an all-night art festival that took place in Trenton, New Jersey. It said:
Police say one gunman was killed, and other is in custody, seventeen
other people were shot and wounded. Five people suffered non-gun-shot injuries.
Then one hour later it reported again:
One of two gunmen is dead. The other is in custody. Authorities say a
total of 17 people suffered gun-shot wounds.
Cambridge online dictionary defines wound and injury as:
Wound: a damage area of the body such as a cut or hole in the skin or flesh body by a weapon.
Injury: physical harm or damage to somebody’s body caused by an accident or an attack.
Based on Cambridge dictionary, it seems that “wound” is basically associated with use of weapon, and “injury” is associated with accident (or attack which doesn’t necessarily require the use of weapons).
Though it may seem a very naïve question to most of native English speakers, I wonder what the basic difference is between “wound” and “injury” — the presence of weapons, accident, or what else?
asked Jun 23, 2018 at 0:46
Yoichi OishiYoichi Oishi
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Injury is the more general term. When used literally, wound is specifically the cut or hole in the skin or organ, as your dictionary search demonstrates. In some cases, they can be used interchangeably. Your radio news example is probably using injury in «Five people suffered non-gun-shot injuries» because it just used «wounded» in the prior sentence and the writer wanted to avoid repetition.
You seem to be on to something re: a weapon vs. no weapon
The OED definition is:
A hurt caused by the laceration or separation of the tissues of the body by a hard or sharp instrument, a bullet, etc.; an external injury.
But, from my experiences in the surgical suite, the thing that causes the wound doesn’t have to be a gun or knife for the hurt to be called a wound. It can be a fist, or even bacteria. If the integrity of the skin has been violated, or if the thing needs to be dressed, it’s a wound.
answered Jun 23, 2018 at 1:14
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On wounds and injuries … a lot of semantics here. In answer to your question: (you nicely provided definitions)
It seems that “wound” is basically associated with use of weapon, and
“injury” is associated with an accident or attack which doesn’t
necessarily require the use of weapons.
My sense is that this is not correct. A weapon is not required for either. An injury may or may not cause a wound (thus a minor injury). A wound does not cause an injury, it is usually the result of. Anything can cause an injury … even words. Words can cause emotional injuries or «wounds» and this has nothing to do with the skin. As for the press statements, they frequently are un-revealing and evolving.
A good article here: DailyWritingTips
Injure[y] is more or less emotionally neutral, but wound suggests strong
emotions of distress or anguish.The following words are options for describing wound in the sense of a
break in the flesh: lesion, cut, gash, laceration, tear, slash, graze,
scratch, abrasion, bruise, and contusion.The following words are options for wound in the context of emotional
injury: insult, blow, slight offense, affront, hurt, damage, pain, distress,
grief, anguish, and torment
answered Jun 23, 2018 at 17:52
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Sample sentences:
— Police say one gunman was killed, and other is in custody, seventeen other people were shot and wounded. Five people suffered non-gun-shot injuries.
Then one hour later it reported again:
One of two gunmen is dead. The other is in custody. Authorities say a total of 17 people suffered gun-shot wounds.
***
- When you are shot with a gun, you are wounded because a wound involves the skin being pierced or otherwise opened up. In short, there is usually bleeding. The fact bleeding is involved usually calls for the word wounded. If you are stabbed, that would also be wounded.
If you break your leg, you are injured but not wounded. Many injuries of that type occur, and would not be referred to as wounds.
In general terms, any type of bodily harm can be described as an injury and if bleeding is involved the bodily harm is also a wound. Bodily harm that involves trauma to the brain or a broken bone, for instance, is not a wound. But it is an injury.
Conclusion: A wound is an injury. An injury is bodily harm. But not all bodily harm is a wound. There are all types of bodily harm (trauma, internal injuries, etc.) that do not involve piercing or opening of the skin with bleeding on the outside. We say internal injuries, and not: internal wounds.
The semantic trait difference between wound and injury is that a wound involves «piercing, cutting or breaking of the skin» whereas injury does not specifically involve that. (the metaphoric meaning of wound here is not addressed per se.)
answered Jun 23, 2018 at 18:11
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Lesson Transcript
| Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words. My name is Alisha and in this episode, we’re going to talk about 10 words for injuries. So, let’s get started! |
| 1. break/fracture |
| The first word is break or fracture. So, these two verbs are used interchangeably, actually. They both refer to a broken bone or a fractured bone. So, two pieces of bone become separated or a bone becomes broken, so fractured. It comes apart. So, to break a bone in present tense is I broke a bone in the past tense. Fracture is a regular verb which means the past tense is fractured. |
| So, in a sentence… |
| «I broke my wrist when I fell snowboarding.» |
| That’s true. That’s true, I broke my wrist when I fell snowboarding and that inspired today’s lesson. |
| 2. sprain |
| The next word is sprain, sprain. To sprain something refers to a… refers to hurting or to injuring a ligament. So, a ligament are this sort of like fibrous things that kind of… they connect the parts of the body, inside your body, they connect bones to muscles or bones to like organs. They hold the parts of the body together inside. So, a sprain is damage to a ligament, a sprain. So we can say, for example, to sprain a part of the body, a specific part of the body. Some common examples come from sport’s injuries like, «He sprained his ankle playing basketball last week.» Or, «I sprained my wrist working in the garden» or something, I don’t know. But, I think a sprain happens when you push the… like the joint or you pushed that part of the body beyond the possible or the reasonable range of motion. |
| So, my example sentence, I already said it, but… |
| «He sprained his ankle at the basketball game last week.» |
| 3. bruise |
| The next word is bruise, bruise. So a bruise refers to taking like a… taking an impact, something that’s not a sharp impact. It’s usually like a blunt impact, I suppose, I don’t know. It kind of depends, but anyway, a bruise, we can use it as a noun or as a verb, actually. To bruise something means you damaged, usually, like a certain area of skin and blood collects under the skin creating like a black or blue or maybe even like greenish color, purple maybe. To use it as a noun, we can say that that spot is a bruise. We refer to that damaged area as a bruise. To use it as a verb; however, we can say, I bruised my arm or I bruised my leg. So, to bruise something means to cause damage, but it’s like the under the skin, we can see the color change because of the damage, the blood collecting there. So that’s to bruise something. |
| In a sentence… |
| «I bruised my arm when I ran into the door.» |
| 4. cut |
| The next word is cut, cut. So cut is done with a sharp object, a cut. A cut refers to an injury which causes blood to emerge, usually, unless it’s a very shallow cut. Shallow is the opposite of deep. So, a cut is caused by a sharp object. So, a knife is probably the most common thing that comes to mind when talking about cuts. Though, another very common type of cut is called a paper cut as a noun. So, if you ever tried to take a piece of paper and the piece of paper has kind of made a small cut on your hand, that’s called a paper cut, a paper cut. So, it’s that kind of sliced motion that injures the body is a cut. |
| All right, in a sentence… |
| «Be careful not to cut yourself when using a knife!» |
| 5. wound |
| The next word is wound, wound. So a wound is just a place of injury on the body. We have a couple of different words we can use to be specific about wounds. They’re like an open wound and a closed wound, I suppose you could say. But, usually, people say things like don’t touch open wounds. So an open wound is usually like a fresh wound. So, something has been recently damaged on the body, recently injured, and the wound is fresh. Maybe we can see blood or maybe we can see into the body or something. That’s considered an open wound. |
| So, a close wound would be perhaps a wound which has been fixed by a doctor or for small wounds, like maybe the body has created a new layer over the top of the wound, that’s called a scab, eww, eww, scabs, eww, but that’s not an open wound then, but we should still care for it. So, a wound is a place on the body that is injured in some way, a wound. That’s used as a noun. We can also use wound as a verb which means to hurt something, like, «I wounded my arm.» But, wound is not so common, I think, in everyday speech. Instead, we use the verb, hurt, «I hurt my arm,» but I’ll talk more about this later. |
| So, in a sentence… |
| «Don’t touch open wounds!» |
| 6. injure |
| The next word is injure, injure. So, I’ve been talking a little bit about the word injure. To injure means to hurt a part of the body. So, to injure your arm, to injure your head, to injure your neck, these mean to take damage on that part of the body, to injure something. So, it’s typically a bad thing to injure something. The noun form of this word is injury, injury. So, «I have an injury.» |
| We use this word more with a…. like, perhaps, sports. I guess military, yeah, I guess so, but for every day, like small, I don’t know, for small injuries, I suppose like paper cuts, for example, or like maybe a cooking accident. I suppose we don’t really say injury. We will say, we’ll use the verb hurt, actually. Again, I’ll talk about that word a little later. But injury, injury is damage, taking damage to a part of the body. |
| In a sentence… |
| «She injured her shoulder this morning.» |
| 7. tear |
| The next word is tear, tear. Be careful, this word is spelled T-E-A-R. It looks like tear, but used as a verb. It is tear, tear, to talk about an injury. So a tear, if you can imagine like a piece of paper, when we want to separate it into two pieces, we can tear the piece of paper. Now, imagine that same idea, but with a muscle in the body. So a muscle tear refers to that kind of damage to the muscles so quite painful, I think you can imagine. So, to tear muscle requires, yeah, some serious recovery time, I imagine. I have never torn a muscle. Yeah, that’s a good point. The past participle form is torn, torn. Have you ever turn a muscle? Or, the past tense, the past tense is tore. I tore my shoulder muscle last week. I don’t know, awful, awful. |
| Yeah. |
| In a sentence… |
| «Tearing a muscle is painful.» |
| 8. pull |
| Pull, pull. So we use pull, again, with muscles, but this is different from tear. So, to tear a muscle refers to this kind of break motion. So to pull a motion means to stretch a muscle too much, so the muscle is like just taken beyond its limits essentially and so, it kind of causes some discomfort. There’s kind of a bad feeling in the muscle. |
| In a sentence… |
| «I think I pulled a muscle… ouch!» |
| 9. dislocate |
| Dislocate, dislocate. So here, we see the word locate referring to location and dis-, dis- which means not in other words. So, to dislocate something refers to removing a part of the body from its correct position and shifting it slightly. So this is something that you hear with joints. So, a joint is a part of the body where two things come together. So, for example, a shoulder. We can talk about the shoulder and dislocate together. |
| So, if we say a sentence like, «I think I dislocated my shoulder.» maybe the correct position of part of the shoulder is to fit into another bone like this, but maybe dislocating the shoulder means like you move this way or I don’t know how to dislocate a shoulder. But either way, the correct position is here, the dislocated position is maybe here or here, I don’t know. So, the bone is not broken. There’s no crack. There’s no break there. It’s just a shift in position. So the word we use is dislocate, to dislocate something. |
| In a sentence… |
| «He dislocated his shoulder and popped it back into place!» |
| Huh! |
| 10. hurt |
| Hurt, to hurt something. I’ve talked about this verb a few times already in this lesson, but to hurt means to injure or to wound. It’s like the very general verb that we can use to describe all damage to the body. So, hurt generally means, kind of a small injury. Like, «Ahh… I hurt my finger. I slammed it in the door.» Or, «I think I hurt my arm playing tennis last week.» |
| We usually use this, for kind of minor injuries, not such big injuries. So, in this case for example, if I say, «I hurt my wrist,» it sounds a little too minor actually. This is probably a more severe injury. I would probably say, yeah, I broke my wrist. I would use something very specific, instead of hurt. To refer more generally to just small, everyday damage to the body, you can say hurt. We also use this word to refer to pain in the body too, like ou…my arm hurts, ou…my wrist hurts. Instead of saying painful, we use the verb hurts more often. So it’s less natural to say, «My wrist is so painful.» Instead, we say, «My wrist hurts.» It hurts is better than painful. So try that out. |
| In a sentence… |
| «I hurt myself a lot… on accident.» |
| So, those are 10 words you can use to talk about injuries. I hope that that’s helpful for you and now you have some specific vocabulary to talk about the various ways we can damage our body. If you have any questions or comments or if you want to share about the time you were injured, please let us know in the comment section below this video. Thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words and I will see you again soon. Bye-bye! |
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Hi,
Is it proper to use the word «injury» in the following context?
A tax office worker in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Rendsburg died in hospital after being shot on Monday morning.
The perpetrator, a tax advisor in his mid-50s who was already in dispute with the tax authorities, entered the office at around 10am and asked to see the manager.
In mid-conversation with the worker the man took out his gun and shot his victim, who later died in hospital due to his injury. How many shots were fired is still not known.
source: thelocal.de/20140901/killed-at-work-tax-office
Wouldn’t «wound» be more appropriate?
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#2
Idiomatic English (BE) would be «he died of/from his injuries». Your text suggests that there was more than one shot, so I suppose it would be better as «… who later died in hospital due to his injuries/wounds …» I prefer injuries, but I suppose wounds would be acceptable. It doesn’t seem a natural sentence in English and I’d expect a British news reporter to phrase it differently — perhaps «… who later died in hospital from his injuries …»
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#3
A wound is always deliberately inflicted; an injury may be deliberate or accidental.
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#4
A wound is always deliberately inflicted; an injury may be deliberate or accidental.
Sorry to disagree with you, Keith, but that’s not true. A wound is an external injury. When I (yet again) bang my bald head on a projection (a low branch, the corner of my bandsaw table …), blood flows from the wound. I never bang my head deliberately.
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#5
…When I (yet again) bang my bald head on a projection (a low branch, the corner of my bandsaw table …), blood flows from the wound. I never bang my head deliberately.
Story of my life!
But what distinction would you make between the two, then?
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#6
But what distinction would you make between the two, then?
I like our dictionary’s definition that specifies skin damage.
WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2014
wound1 /wund/ n.
[countable]
- an injury, usually involving the cutting or tearing of skin or tissue.
- an injury or hurt to feelings, emotions, or reputation.
A broken arm, for example, is an injury, but if the skin is not broken, it’s not a wound.
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#7
I like our dictionary’s definition that specifies skin damage.
A broken arm, for example, is an injury, but if the skin is not broken, it’s not a wound.
I’m in absolute agreement.
To me, a frostbite or a scald are thermal injuries but not wounds. The same applies, for instance, to a sunburn as a form of a radiation injury. A wound is just a type of an injury.
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#8
Both B and C are correct. Why is A wrong?
«Only the driver was…….in the accident.»
A. wounded
B. injured
C. hurt
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#9
Well, according to Keith’s distinction, it doesn’t work because car accidents are hardly ever deliberate.
The dictionary definition provided in #6 does not seem to support «wounded» either because why on earth would anyone need to specify that it was a kind of injury involving skin damage?
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#10
Yes, I see that the subsequent discussion makes my post confusing. My deletion was cross-posted with your last post.
Whether one thinks a wound is something that is deliberately inflicted or not, we use the verb form of «wound» to refer to a deliberate act, not to an accident.
[Cross-posted with grassy]
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#11
Well, according to Keith’s distinction, it doesn’t work because car accidents are hardly ever deliberate.
The dictionary definition provided in #6 does not seem to support «wounded» either because why on earth would anyone need to specify that it was a kind of injury involving skin damage?
Yes, I see that the subsequent discussion makes my post confusing. My deletion was cross-posted with your last post.
Whether one thinks a wound is something that is deliberately inflicted or not, we use the verb form of «wound» to refer to a deliberate act, not to an accident.
[Cross-posted with grassy]
Thank you both very much
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#12
Whether one thinks a wound is something that is deliberately inflicted or not, we use the verb form of «wound» to refer to a deliberate act, not to an accident.
Well…….
When I’ve accidentally cut myself a couple of times (that’s what I get for using sharp knives), my local medical provider referred to the cuts as «wounds» as they were being stitched up.
(They were not intentional)
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#13
I think you’re right, SDGraham. There’s a mismatch between the verb / adjective to wound, wounded and the noun a wound.
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#14
I think the mismatch lies in the situation: a road traffic accident (post #8). A car accident doesn’t inflict a wound — or at least, we don’t describe it that way. But your injuries may well include an open wound that needs stitching, for example.
I was wounded in a fight
I was injured in a car crash
I was hurt in an accident at work
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#15
«Only the driver was…….in the accident.»
A. wounded
B. injured
C. hurt
If you want to use «wound» it has to be a noun, although it doesn’t easily fit your context: «In the accident, the driver received wounds to the head and chest; the passengers escaped unharmed.»
A wound / to wound is usually described by recipient and/or bodily location.
There are two meanings of «to wound someone/something»
- To pierce one’s/the object’s skin -> He wounded him.
- To cause one’s/the object’s skin to be pierced -> The falling rock wounded his hand.
In the car accident, it is not the accident itself that causes wounds or pierces: it is the impact between the body and surfaces.
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#16
Thank you all very much
If you want to use «wound» it has to be a noun, although it doesn’t easily fit your context: «In the accident, the driver received wounds to the head and chest; the passengers escaped unharmed.»
A wound / to wound is usually described by recipient and/or bodily location.
There are two meanings of «to wound someone/something»
- To pierce one’s/the object’s skin -> He wounded him.
- To cause one’s/the object’s skin to be pierced -> The falling rock wounded his hand.
In the car accident, it is not the accident itself that causes wounds or pierces: it is the impact between the body and surfaces.
Thanks a lot PaulQ