wound (HyperDic hyper-dictionary) (English)

English 7 senses of the word *wound*:
NOUN	state	wound, lesion	an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
event	wound, injury, combat injury	a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
feeling	wound	a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
act	wound, wounding	the act of inflicting a wound
VERB	body	wound, injure	cause injuries or bodily harm to
emotion	wound, hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite	hurt the feelings of
ADJECTIVE	all	wound	put in a coil

wound pronunciation
Sounds	waw'nd; wuw'nd
Rhymes	abound ... westbound: 56 rhymes with awnd...
marooned

Englishwound: 7 senses adjective 1
Meaning	put in a coil.
Broader	coiled	curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

Englishwound: 7 senses noun 1, state
Meaning	An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).
Synonym	lesion
Narrower	abrasion, scratch, scrape, excoriation	An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
	bite	A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
	cut, gash, slash, slice	A wound made by cutting
	laceration	A torn ragged wound
	raw wound	A wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue
	stigmata	marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
Broader	injury, hurt, harm, trauma	Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Spanish	herida, lesión
Catalan	ferida, lesió

Englishwound: 7 senses noun 2, event
Meaning	A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.
Synonyms	injury, combat injury
Category	military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine	The military forces of a nation
Narrower	blighty wound	A wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad
Narrower	flesh wound	A wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones
Broader	personnel casualty, loss	military personnel lost by death or capture
Spanish	herida de guerra, herida
Catalan	ferida de guerra, ferida
Verbs	wound	cause injuries or bodily harm to

Englishwound: 7 senses noun 3, feeling
Meaning	A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).
Examples	"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
Broader	distress, hurt, suffering	psychological suffering

Englishwound: 7 senses noun 4, act
Meaning	The act of inflicting a wound.
Synonym	wounding
Broader	damage, harm, hurt, scathe	The act of damaging something or someone
Spanish	herida
Catalan	ferida
Verbs	wound	cause injuries or bodily harm to

Englishwound: 7 senses verb 1, body
Meaning	Cause injuries or bodily harm to.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Synonym	injure
Entailed by	maul, mangle	injure badly by beating
Entailed by	spur	strike with a spur
Narrower	bruise, contuse	injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
	calk	injure with a calk
	concuss	injure the brain
	disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap	injure permanently
	fracture, break	fracture a bone of
	graze	break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
	harm	Cause or do harm to
	knife, stab	Use a knife on
	maim	injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
	pull, overstretch	strain / strain abnormally
	run down, run over	injure or kill / kill by running over, as with a vehicle
	shoot, hit, pip	hit with a missile from a weapon
	skin, scrape	bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
	subluxate	sprain or dislocate slightly
	torture, excruciate, torment	subject to torture
	trample	injure by trampling or as if by trampling
	traumatize, traumatise, shock	inflict a trauma upon
	twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick	Twist suddenly so as to sprain
Broader	hurt	Give trouble or pain to
Spanish	herir, lastimar, lesionar
Catalan	ferir-se, ferir, fer-se mal, lesionar
Nouns	wound, wounding	the act of inflicting a wound
Nouns	wound	a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Englishwound: 7 senses verb 2, emotion
Meaning	hurt the feelings of.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody
Model	Sam cannot wound Sue
Synonyms	hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Narrower	diss, insult, affront	treat, mention, or speak to rudely
	humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase	Cause to feel shame
	lacerate	Deeply hurt the feelings of
	sting	Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Broader	arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke	Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Spanish	dañar, herir, insultar, lastimar, lesionar, ofender
Catalan	danyar, ferir, fer mal, insultar, lesionar, nafrar, ofendre

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