wound Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
    lesion.
  2. noun a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
    injury; combat injury.
  3. noun 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
  4. noun the act of inflicting a wound
    wounding.
  5. verb cause injuries or bodily harm to
    injure.
  6. verb hurt the feelings of
    spite; injure; bruise; hurt; offend.
    • She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
    • This remark really bruised my ego
  7. verb to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
    wander; meander; thread; wind; weave.
    • the river winds through the hills
    • the path meanders through the vineyards
    • sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
  8. verb extend in curves and turns
    twist; curve; wind.
    • The road winds around the lake
    • the path twisted through the forest
  9. verb arrange or or coil around
    wrap; twine; roll; wind.
    • roll your hair around your finger
    • Twine the thread around the spool
    • She wrapped her arms around the child
  10. verb catch the scent of; get wind of
    scent; nose; wind.
    • The dog nosed out the drugs
  11. verb coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
    wind up; wind.
    • wind your watch
  12. verb form into a wreath
    wreathe; wind.
  13. verb raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
    lift; hoist; wind.
    • hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
  14. adjective satellite put in a coil

WordNet

Wound
Definitions
  1. imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
Wound noun
Etymology
OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. *140. Cf. Zounds.
Definitions
  1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. Chaucer.
    Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak.
  2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
  3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. ✍ Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.
Wound transitive verb
Etymology
AS. wundian. *140. See Wound, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Wounded; present participle & verbal noun Wounding
Definitions
  1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
    The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
  2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
    When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12.

Webster 1913