wound
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Etymology 1
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
Pronunciation
Noun
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 3]:
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- axe wound
- Blighty wound
- defense wound
- defensive wound
- dirty wound
- entrance wound
- entry wound
- exit wound
- flesh wound
- gutter wound
- hatchet wound
- hesitation wound
- keyhole wound
- lick one's wounds
- open wound
- reopen old wounds
- rub salt in the wound
- salt in the wound
- self-defense wound
- stab wound
- tentative wound
- time heals all wounds
- time heals every wound
- turn the knife in the wound
- twist the knife in the wound
- wound collecting
- wound collection
- wound collector
- wound gall
Translations
injury
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something that offends a person’s feelings
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an injury to a person by which the skin is divided
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Verb
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
- (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- Synonyms: damage, harm; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
- Synonyms: affront, hurt; see also Thesaurus:offend
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
- 1984 December 8, Michael Bronski, Andrea Loewenstein, “Family & Friends: Writers Talk Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 12:
- I find neglect or rejection from my own community much harder to take and more wounding than the same thing or worse from the outside world.
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.
Translations
hurt or injure
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hurt (someone's feelings)
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Etymology 2
See wind (Etymology 2)
Pronunciation
Verb
wound
- simple past and past participle of wind
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
Derived terms
- drum-wound
- flat-wound
- round-wound
- series-wound
- wound rotor
- wound-up
References
- Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, , page 238
- Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 150.
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