[
US
/ˈwaʊnd, ˈwund/
]
VERB
- cause injuries or bodily harm to
-
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
- She wound up her dance routine with a wobbly pirouette and took a little bow.
- 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
- 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 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!
- In June 2004, the Post Exchange here was mortared, killing two Soldiers and wounding more than a dozen additional troops.
- The large bone of the upper arm was splintered to the elbow joint, and the wound bled freely.
- The path from Billy's cottage wound down towards the river bank.
- Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
- The teenage survivor suffered puncture wounds. Times, Sunday Times