wound
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA(key): /wuːnd/
- (US) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA(key): /wund/
- (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA(key): /waʊnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːnd
NounEdit
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 3, scene 3]:
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
SynonymsEdit
- (injury): injury, lesion
- (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
injury
|
|
something that offends a person’s feelings
|
an injury to a person by which the skin is divided
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
VerbEdit
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.
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
- (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
- (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend
TranslationsEdit
hurt or injure
|
|
hurt (someone's feelings)
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
Etymology 2Edit
See wind (Etymology 2)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
wound
- simple past tense and past participle of wind
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis[1]:
- “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”