[
US
/ˈwaʊnd, ˈwund/
]
VERB
- cause injuries or bodily harm to
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hurt the feelings of
This remark really bruised my ego
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
NOUN
-
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
he feared that mentioning it might reopen the 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
deep in her breast lives the silent wound - an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- the act of inflicting a wound
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
ADJECTIVE
- put in a coil
How To Use wound In A Sentence
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
- They hurt for the wounded and the dead but they are eager to continue to attack.
- *Although the link between microorganisms and infection was yet to be established, the connection between pus—purulence—and sepsis, fever, and death, often arising from an abscess or wound, was well known to Bennett. The Emperor of All Maladies
- A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.
- The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries - a deep wound to his side had punctured a lung.
- Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
