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Wound

noun

1.

An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). Synonym: lesion.

2.

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. Synonyms: combat injury, injury.

3.

A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride). "Deep in her breast lives the silent 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"

4.

The act of inflicting a wound. Synonym: wounding.

verb

1.

Cause injuries or bodily harm to. Synonym: injure.

2.

Hurt the feelings of. Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite. "This remark really bruised my ego"

adjective

1.

Put in a coil.

Wind

verb

(when related to turns: past & past part. wound, rarely winded; pres. part. winding) (when related to the air: past & past part. winded; pres. part. winding)

1.

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, weave. "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

2.

Extend in curves and turns. Synonyms: curve, twist. "The path twisted through the forest"

3.

Arrange or or coil around. Synonyms: roll, twine, wrap. "Twine the thread around the spool" , "She wrapped her arms around the child"

4.

Catch the scent of; get wind of. Synonyms: nose, scent.

5.

Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem. Synonym: wind up.

6.

Form into a wreath. Synonym: wreathe.

7.

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. Synonyms: hoist, lift.

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"Wound" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Peninsula,' he said, 'my countrymen died in the front rank, with their faces to the foe. The proudest naval trophy of the last American war was brought by a Nova Scotian into the harbour of his native town; and the blood that flowed from Nelson's death-wound in the cockpit of the Victory mingled with that of a Nova Scotian stripling beside him, struck down in ...

— The Tribune of Nova Scotia - A Chronicle of Joseph Howe • W. L. (William Lawson) Grant

... that I dreamed, for this figure exactly resembled Brother John. There was his long, snowy beard. There in his hand was his butterfly net, with the handle of which he seemed to be prodding the ox. Only he was wound about with wreaths of flowers as were the great horns of the ox, and on either side of him and before and behind him ran girls, also wreathed with flowers. It was a vision, nothing else, and I shut my eyes again ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... struggle of the nationalities within the wide circuit of the Roman empire, the secondary nations seem at this period on the wane or disappearing. The most important of them all, the Phoenician, received through the destruction of Carthage a mortal wound from which it slowly bled to death. The districts of Italy which had hitherto preserved their old language and manners, Etruria and Samnium, were not only visited by the heaviest blows of the Sullan reaction, but were compelled also by ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... in the day of the conflict could wound him, Though war launch'd her thunder in fury to kill; Now the Angel of Death in the desert has found him, And stretch'd him in peace by the stream ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... things are often so many means of grace, in the hands of our merciful God, to awaken the mind and to save the guilty soul. But in the confessional the poison is administered under the name of a pure and refreshing water; the deadly wound is inflicted by a sword so well oiled that the blow is not felt; the vilest and most impure notions and thoughts, in the form of questions and answers, are presented and accepted as the bread of life! All the notions of modesty, purity, and womanly ...

— The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional • Father Chiniquy

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