wound
noun
1. an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Similar word(s): lesion
Definition categories: state, harm, hurt, injury, trauma
2. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Similar word(s): injury
Definition categories: event, loss
3. 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
Definition categories: feeling, distress, hurt, suffering
4. the act of inflicting a wound
Similar word(s): wounding
Definition categories: act, damage, harm, hurt, scathe
Sentences with wound as a noun:
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
verb
1. cause injuries or bodily harm to
Similar word(s): injure
Definition categories: body, hurt
2. hurt the feelings of
Similar word(s): bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite
Definition categories: emotion, arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
Sentences with wound as a verb:
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.