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wound English

Meaning wound meaning

What does wound mean?
Definitions in simple English

wound Noun

— A wound is a cut in skin with pain and blood, a burn, or other similar mark on someone's body. I dropped a knife on my foot, but the wound was minor, so I didn't need to go to the hospital.

wound Verb 1

— When you wound someone, you cause an injury (a wound) to the person. The sharp blade wounded the man.

wound

— noun an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) — verb (= injure) cause injuries or bodily harm to — noun a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat — adjective put in a coil — noun 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 — -Robert Frost — noun (= wounding) the act of inflicting a wound — verb (= hurt, bruise) hurt the feelings of She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests This remark really bruised my ego

Synonyms wound synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wound?

wound English » English

injury hurt injure sore cut bruise gash scar ulcer lesion strike scratch harm damage stab pain offend wounding sting maim laceration kill hit boil slash lacerate cicatrix blemish swelling infection incision be wounded pierce disable blow bite tumor trauma spite sinuous scab prick mutilate mistreat maul make bleed insult infected hole gore

Topics wound topics

What do people use wound to talk about?
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Healthy

Treat disease

Conjugation wound conjugation

How do you conjugate wound?

wound · verb

Examples wound examples

How do I use wound in a sentence?

Simple sentences

My friend died from a wound.
If a dog bites you, wash the wound with soap and water.
Rub salt in the wound.
The soldier carried on as if his wound was nothing.
The road wound through the fields.
The man was used to treating this kind of wound.
The wound has not healed yet.
Blood ran from his wound.
The last wound proved fatal.
The wound still hurts me.
Clocks used to be wound every day.
The wound won't close.
Pus has formed in the wound.
The wound has not yet healed.
The wound was fatal to him.
Let me see your wound.
She applied her handkerchief to his wound.
She applied a bandage to the wound.
She took care of his wound.
He cleansed the wound before putting on a bandage.
Apparently the wound itself only needs a few stitches.

Movie subtitles

The wound was serious.
It's almost as if the clock is being wound back 600 years, to the last time China led the world.
The wound is so deep.
Stab wound.
CHUCKLES No. But a stab wound, that'd be my guess.
It will take some time to figure out what implement caused that wound.
Given the shape, depth and circumference of the wound, I have narrowed it down to these.
Too thin. To make a wound of that dimension?
Head wound.
I used to be so wound up, I couldn't sleep at night and then I started to drink this and it gave me calm.
The wound appears to be inflicted by a curved blade about four inches long.
A strand of your dog's hair was found in Mr. Stoddard's wound.
And a hair from Miss Newsome's dog was found in the wound, making her actual scissors almost certainly the murder weapon.
Do you think it's that simple to get rid of a wound to close the mouth of a wound?
Yvette Delys was fatally stabbed and the killer got away, leaving your knife in the wound.
The weapon was thrown with so much force that it caused a deadly wound to the thorax.
I carried diphtheria bacilli in the wound till 1920.
It's impossible to treat the wound.
We are happy to say, however, that the shot fired. merely caused a slight flesh wound in Monsieur Ropa's shoulder. and he has been able to return home.
The wound looks pretty fresh.
James Graham. One share, plus 100 pieces of eight for a pike wound.
This is how it wound up.
Flesh wound. Looks like that little stranger's gonna have a papa.
The nature of the wound.
That thin line of blood indicating an almost vertical cut. It matches completely the cut on your hand, Lewis. Why, the wound on Dearden's hand is an inch shorter and horizontal.
I didn't think a stomach wound hurt so.
And not an arrow wound to divide among them, I suppose.
I used to be so wound up, I couldn't sleep at night and then I started to drink this and it gave me calm. - Mm.
When we further investigated Mr. Stoddard's body, we discovered this in the coagulated blood around his wound.
You have an injury, but it's a flesh wound.
Just a flesh wound.
Get him on the bed where I can dress the wound.
Would you like to see my wound?
It was only a flesh wound. -They took her to the hospital.
A clean wound heals much more quickly.

News and current affairs

If banks can be wound up easily when things go wrong, with losses equitably distributed, regulators can more easily allow them to continue to operate globally and efficiently.
Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a severe head wound.
For many non-Americans, the election brought the welcome and reassuring victory of Barack Obama, whereas the resignation of David Petraeus as Director of the CIA was an unnecessary, self-inflicted wound.
The billions lent to Russia quickly wound up in the Swiss and Cyprus bank accounts of Russia's oligarchs.
Normally, clots would form in the wound, making it impossible for the hookworm to feed.
A transcript of his comments and sections of the video-tape wound up on a hard-line, pro-regime website, baztab.com.
Less visible is the deep and self-inflicted wound that, I suspect, has opened within NATO itself.
In any case, this reflects the open wound that the Milosevic trial is for Serbia.
Palme also exploited ideological differences over diplomacy to wound other democratic parties in Sweden.
This self-inflicted political wound is extremely dangerous.
But poverty was not the only wound inflicted in these years.
They both wound up in the middle, compromising with capital markets.
One such type of wound reportedly resembles second-degree burns over large parts of bodies, but with the hairs intact - not a typical reaction to fire and heat.
The loan operations of the IMF would be wound up over a suitable period.
And, when wound into coils, they can produce extremely strong magnetic fields.
He wound up at the American Air Force base in Incirlik in southern Turkey.
This is the real wound that infects America's entire foreign policy, particularly its standing in the Arab and Muslim world.
The mechanism is deliberately complex to the point of being unworkable; it is inconceivable that a bank could be wound down over a weekend to avert market panic.
The endgame is far more likely to entail a wave of debt write-downs, similar to the one that finally wound up the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980's.
Their bad assets will be separated and wound down over time.
Indeed, the question in this region is not whether the war on terror can be wound down, but whether Pakistan, which in many ways has become Islamic terrorism's nexus, is doing all that it can to fight it.
But the recent months of infighting have left a deep wound among Palestinians.
If that wound is to heal, much effort must be exerted to restore a functioning economy, strengthen internal security, and improve Palestinians' relations with their neighbors and the international community.

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