wound

English Online Dictionary. What means wound‎? What does wound mean?

English

Etymology 1

Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA^(key): /wuːnd/
  • (MLE) IPA^(key): /wyːnd/
• (US) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA^(key): /wund/
• (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA^(key): /waʊnd/
• Rhymes: -uːnd

Noun

wound (plural wounds)

2. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
3. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.

4. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Synonyms

• (injury): injury, lesion
• (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
• See also Thesaurus:injury

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)

1. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

   Synonyms: damage, harm; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt

2. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

   Synonyms: affront, hurt; see also Thesaurus:offend

Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.

Translations

Etymology 2

See wind (Etymology 2)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /waʊnd/
• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Verb

wound

1. simple past and past participle of wind

Derived terms

• drum-wound
• flat-wound
• round-wound
• series-wound
• wound rotor
• wound-up

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