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.

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

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.

Synonyms

• (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
• (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend

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