Wound
[wuːnd] or [wund]
Definition
(noun.) the act of inflicting a wound.
(noun.) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.
(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.
(noun.) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).
(adj.) put in a coil .
Checker: Willa--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Wind
(imp. & p. p.) of Wind
(-) imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
(n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cut, stab, bruise.[2]. Injury, hurt, damage, detriment, harm.
v. a. [1]. Hurt, injure, damage, harm.[2]. Pain, irritate, gall, lacerate, prick.[3]. Annoy, mortify, offend, hurt the feelings of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rend, cut, hurt, injure, harm, damage, pain, mortify, annoy, gall, irritate,lacerate
ANT:Heal, soothe, allay, repair, mollify, soften, gratify, please
Editor: Thea
Definition
n. any division of soft parts including the skin produced by external mechanical force—whether incised punctured contused lacerated or poisoned: any cut bruise hurt or injury.—v.t. to make a wound in: to injure.—adj. Woun′dable capable of being wounded.—n. Woun′der.—adv. Woun′dily (coll.) excessively.—n. Woun′ding.—adj. Wound′less exempt from being wounded invulnerable: harmless.—n. Wound′wort a name applied to several plants of popular repute as vulneraries as the kidney-vetch &c.: a plant of genus Stachys the marsh or clown's woundwort.—adj. Woun′dy causing wounds: (coll.) excessive.
pa.t. and pa.p. of wind.
Checker: Mitchell
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are wounded, signals distress and an unfavorable turn in business. To see others wounded, denotes that injustice will be accorded you by your friends. To relieve or dress a wound, signifies that you will have occasion to congratulate yourself on your good fortune.
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Examples
- Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This shutter was wound up by a spring operated by a pull cord. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Well it's only a pretty deep flesh-wound; but, then, tumbling and scratching down that place didn't help him much. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He forced back the gathering shadows of death, as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched, and to cover his wound. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The strength of any electromagnet depends upon the number of coils wound on the iron core and upon the strength of the current which is sent through the coils. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- After Edison had decided this question, Upton made drawings and tables from which the real armatures were wound and connected to the commutator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Would it at all pour balm into your wounds, Mr Venus, to inquire how you came acquainted with her? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I took him to my own room, had a good bed made for him, dressed his wounds, and tended him myself, until he got fairly on his feet again. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let him wander his way, said he--let those leech his wounds for whose sake he encountered them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- After examining D'Arnot's wounds the man left the shelter and disappeared. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He was soon streaming blood from a half dozen minor wounds, but I could not obtain an opening to deliver an effective thrust. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He was badly hurt and bruised, and no small quantity of arnica was needed for his wounds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wounded too, and bruised. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Still even wounded you do not see it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She might feel a little wounded, but her care was not for herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In order to get a start in his retreat he sacrificed his sick and wounded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This effort of Lee's cost him about four thousand men, and resulted in their killing, wounding and capturing about two thousand of ours. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The girl evidently dared not fire for fear of wounding me, but I saw her sneak stealthily and cat-like toward the flank of the attackers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Caroline no more showed such wounding sagacity or reproachful sensitiveness now than she had done when a suckling of three months old. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How he ever did it so often without wounding himself with my knife, I don't know. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Do you shrink from wounding me? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They aimed at wounding more than Harriet, said he. Jane Austen. Emma.
Editor: Peter