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Wound   /waʊnd/  /wund/   Listen
Wound

noun
1.
An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).  Synonym: lesion.
2.
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.  Synonyms: combat injury, injury.
3.
A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).  "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"
4.
The act of inflicting a wound.  Synonym: wounding.
verb
1.
Cause injuries or bodily harm to.  Synonym: injure.
2.
Hurt the feelings of.  Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite.  "This remark really bruised my ego"
adjective
1.
Put in a coil.



Wind

verb
(when related to turns: past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding)  (when related to the air: past & past part. winded; pres. part. winding)
1.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.  Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave.  "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
2.
Extend in curves and turns.  Synonyms: curve, twist.  "The path twisted through the forest"
3.
Arrange or or coil around.  Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap.  "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"
4.
Catch the scent of; get wind of.  Synonyms: nose, scent.
5.
Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.  Synonym: wind up.
6.
Form into a wreath.  Synonym: wreathe.
7.
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.  Synonyms: hoist, lift.



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"Wound" Quotes from Famous Books



... bit of rag, and she scrambled under the dresser for a little piece she had hidden there the day before. Meanwhile, Johnny ceased crying, he was so interested in all the preparation for dressing his little wound, and so much pleased to find himself an object of so much attention and consequence. The baby, too, sat on the floor, gravely wondering at the commotion; and thus busily occupied, they were quiet and out of mischief till Ann Jones came ...
— The Grey Woman and other Tales • Mrs. (Elizabeth) Gaskell

... truth, and remembered what he had said, his face was scarcely less full of pain than Christine's. He saw that her whole soul was bent on an imitation that none could detect, and that he had foiled her purpose. But Christine's wound was deeper than that. She had been told again, clearly and correctly, that the sphere of high, true art was beyond her reach. She felt that the verdict was true, and her own judgment confirmed every word Dennis uttered. But she had done her ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... with my men, designing to attempt the natives no farther, being very sorry for what had happened already. They took up their wounded companion; and my young man, who had been struck through the cheek by one of their lances, was afraid it had been poisoned, but I did not think that likely. His wound was very painful to him, being made with a blunt weapon; but he ...
— Early Australian Voyages • John Pinkerton

... Sponge what they wanted, Mrs. Crowdey had her hands full. At last, having got them set a-going, she took a lump of sugar out of the basin, and showing it to the wonder, laid it beside her plate, whispering 'Now, my beauty!' into his ear, as she adjusted him in his chair. The child, who had been wound up like a musical snuff-box, then went off ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... such a grip as the fiend had never felt before." A desperate conflict begins, and a mighty uproar,—crashing of benches, shoutings of men, the "war-song" of Grendel, who is trying to break the grip of his foe. As the monster struggles toward the door, dragging the hero with him, a wide wound opens on his shoulder; the sinews snap, and with a mighty wrench Beowulf tears off the whole limb. While Grendel rushes howling across the fens, Beowulf hangs the grisly arm with its iron claws, "the whole grapple ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long


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