wound
UK/ˈwuːnd/
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British/ˈwʉwnd/
wound noun: an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. Also the simple past and past participle of wind.
Noun
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 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.2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.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...
- A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Verb
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
- To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- To hurt (a person's feelings).
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
- 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.1984 December 8, Michael Bronski, Andrea Loewenstein, “Family & Friends: Writers Talk Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 12
- Synonyms:
- affront, hurt, abuse, burn, carry, cut down, disrespect, dis, diss, give stick
Also used as
wound is also the simple past and past participle of wind.
wound meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
wound in Hindi
- injury
- घाव ghāv, चोट coṭ, ज़ख़्म zaxm, ज़ख़म zaxam, जुर्ह jurh
- something that offends a person’s feelings
- ठेस ṭhes
- hurt or injure
- चोट करना coṭ karnā
wound in Tamil
- injury
- புண் puṇ, காயம் kāyam
wound in Urdu
- injury
- گھاوْ ghāv, چوٹ coṭ, زَخْم zaxm, جُرْح jurh, جَراحَت jarāhat
wound in Bengali
- injury
- ক্ষত khot, জখম jokhom, ঘাত ghat
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- wound in Telugu
- గాయము gāyamu, గాయపరచు gāyaparacu
- wound in Malayalam
- മുറിവ് muṟivŭ
- wound in Kannada
- ಗಾಯ gāya
- wound in Punjabi
- ਜ਼ਖ਼ਮ zaxam
- wound in Odia
- ଜଖମ jakhama
- wound in Sanskrit
- क्षति kṣati, हिनस्ति hinasti
- wound in Sinhala
- තුවාලය tuwālaya
- wound in Pashto
- زخم záxəm, ټپ ṭap
- wound in Tagalog
- sugat
- wound in Arabic
- جُرْح jurḥ, جِرَاحَة jirāḥa, جَرَحَ jaraḥa
- wound in Malay
- luka
- wound in Indonesian
- luka, cedera, lecet, melukai
- wound in Persian
- مجروح کردن majruh kardan
- wound in Thai
- บาดแผล bàat-plɛ̌ɛ
- wound in Vietnamese
- vết thương
- wound in Myanmar
- ဒဏ်ရာ danra
Examples of wound in a sentence
- Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.
- They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
- I dread the burn of the disinfectant where it enters an open wound.
Synonyms of wound
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Forms of wound
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wounds |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wounde |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wounds |
| present participle | wounding |
| past participle | wounded |
| past | wounded |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | woundest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | woundedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | woundeth |
Origin of wound
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-West Germanic *wundu, from Proto-Germanic *wundō (“wound”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, toil, win”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wuunde (“wound”), Cimbrian bunta (“wound”), Dutch wond, wonde (“wound”), German Wunde (“wonde”), Luxembourgish Wonn (“wound”), Yiddish וווּנד (vund, “wound”), Icelandic und (“wound”), Gothic *𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*wunda, “wound”) (whence 𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍆𐌽𐌹 (wundufni, “disease, plague”)); also Old Armenian վանդեմ (vandem, “to destroy; to catch a disease”). Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną (“to wound”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian buntan (“to wound”), Dutch wonden (“to wound”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (gawundōn, “to wound”).
See wind (Etymology 2)
Words formed from wound
- drum-wound
- flat-wound
- round-wound
- series-wound
- wound rotor
- wound-up
- axe wound
- Blighty wound
- contact 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
- mother wound
- open wound
- put a band-aid on a bullet 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 cambium
- wound collecting
- wound collection
- wound collector
- wound cork
- wound gall
- wound gum
- wound parasite
- wound wood
Phrases with wound
- wound up
- wound off
- wound back
- wound down
- wound galls
- wound rotors
- wound parasites
- wound collectors
- wound collections
- wound one's neck in
- wound back the clock
- rubs salt in the wound
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- wound up one's bottoms
- rubbed salt in the wound
- rubbing salt in the wound
- turns the knife in the wound
- turned the knife in the wound
- twists the knife in the wound
- turning the knife in the wound
- twisted the knife in the wound
- twisting the knife in the wound
- wound around one's little finger
- puts a band-aid on a bullet wound
- putting a band-aid on a bullet wound
Words that rhyme with wound
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Questions about wound
- What does wound mean?
- Wound means an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- What is wound in Hindi?
- Wound in Hindi is घाव (ghāv), चोट (coṭ), ज़ख़्म (zaxm). See Wound meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wound?
- Wound can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wound?
- Wound is pronounced /ˈwuːnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wound?
- The plural of wound is wounds.
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