Definition of Wound
Noun: wound woond
- An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- lesion
- (military) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- injury, combat injury
- 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"
- The act of inflicting a wound
- wounding
- Cause injuries or bodily harm to
- injure
- Cause (somebody) emotional pain or offence
- hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite
- Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- wind up
- Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- hoist, lift
- Form into a wreath
- wreathe
- Arrange or coil around
- wrap, roll, twine
- To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- weave, thread, meander, wander
- Extend in curves and turns
- twist, curve
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