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Wound

noun

1.

An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). Synonym: lesion.

2.

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. Synonyms: combat injury, injury.

3.

A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride). "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"

4.

The act of inflicting a wound. Synonym: wounding.

verb

1.

Cause injuries or bodily harm to. Synonym: injure.

2.

Hurt the feelings of. Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite. "This remark really bruised my ego"

adjective

1.

Put in a coil.

Wind

verb

(when related to turns: past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding) (when related to the air: past & past part. winded; pres. part. winding)

1.

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave. "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

2.

Extend in curves and turns. Synonyms: curve, twist. "The path twisted through the forest"

3.

Arrange or or coil around. Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap. "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"

4.

Catch the scent of; get wind of. Synonyms: nose, scent.

5.

Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem. Synonym: wind up.

6.

Form into a wreath. Synonym: wreathe.

7.

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. Synonyms: hoist, lift.

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"Wound" Quotes from Famous Books

... orbital speed of the earth were a mile less per hour, or even a foot less, then the earth would wind up around the sun as a dog gets wound up with his chain around a tree. If this speed were a mile more per hour, then the earth would wind out, each year getting farther and farther away, until finally it would be lost. When the speed is exactly proportional to the pull—that is, when it is as 1.6 ...

— Ancient and Modern Physics • Thomas E. Willson

... own sex that crushed them. The change was almost comically sudden to the mellow tones in which she addressed Alfred the very next moment, on the very same subject: "Mr. Baker, I believe, sees the letters: and, where our poor patients (with a glance at Dent) write in such a way as to wound and perhaps terrify those who are in reality their best friends, they are not always sent. But I conclude your letters have gone. If you feel you can be calm, why not ask Mr. Baker? He is in the ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... Carolina, explaining that he could know nothing of its merits, as he had but just come home from abroad; but he warmly commended the proposition to submit the question to Congress, and urged that the disputants should abide by its decision. He wound up his letter by some general remarks on the benefits of having a Congress which could act as a judge ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Three - The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 • Theodore Roosevelt

... been made secure, True Blue went below to report what had been done. He found Paul sleeping more soundly than usual. Perhaps some of the medicine the surgeon had given him, on account of his wound, had affected him, True Blue thought. He had to speak two or three times before he could make him comprehend what ...

— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston

... him altogether; for if you could destroy a part you could destroy the whole. No one ever heard of the devil's eye being put out—ergo, the dog could not be a devil, or one of his imps; so argued a knot of the men in conclave, and Jansen wound up by observing, "Dat de tog was ...

— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

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