Wound
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English
Noun
Wound (plural Wounds)- An injury, such as a cut or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- A hurt to a person's feelings.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Verb
Wound (third-person singular simple present Wounds, present participle Wounding, simple past and past participle Wounded)
- (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
- Simple past tense and past participle of wind.
Adjectives for Wound
sharp; starched; gaping; obstinate; desperate; lifelong; unhealed; sterile; sharp; unadvised; stiffening; self-inflicted; dark; bleeding; ancient; external; ghastly; fatal; infected; punctured lacerated; mortal; grievous; suppurating cruel; serious; aching; frightful; reeking recurring; raw; numerous (plural); surface immediate; hideous; disastrous; severe.
Adjectives for Wound
allay—; alleviate—; assuage—; balm—; caress—; cauterize—; cleanse—; disinfect—; drain—; dress—; inflict—; irrigate—; pack—; probe—; soothe—; staunch—; suck—; swab—; weather—; —bleeds; —punctures; —scars.
Adverbs for Wound
indirectly; mortally; spiritually; dangerously; frightfully; cruelly; seriously; severely; critically; sorely; fatally; internally; grievously; hideously; disastrously.
Thesaurus
maul, menace, mistreat, molest, mutilate, mutilation, nip, offend, outrage, pain, pang, passion, persecute, pierce, piles, pimple, pinch, pock, poison, pollute, polyp, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, puncture, pustule, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rend, rent, rip, rising, rub, run, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, shock, skin, slash, slit, sore, spasm, sprain, stab, stick, stigma, sting, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, taint, tear, threaten, throes, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize, tubercle, tweak, twist, ulcer, ulceration, violate, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, wrench, wring, wrong, abrade, abrasion, abscess, abuse, ache, aching, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, bark, bed sore, befoul, bewitch, bite, blemish, blight, blister, bloody, blow, boil, break, bruise, bubo, bunion, burn, canker, carbuncle, chafe, chancre, check, chilblain, chip, claw, cold sore, concussion, condemn, convulse, corrupt, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, crucify, curse, cut, cut up, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, distress, dolor, doom, envenom, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, gathering, gnaw, grate, grief, grieve, grind, gripe, gumboil, harass, harm, harrow, hemorrhoids, hex, hurt, hurt the feelings, impair, incise, incision, infect, inflame, injure, injury, irritate, jinx, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, maltreat, martyr,
