Definition of Wound

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Definition of Wound

Wound

of Wind

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.

Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.

To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.

To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

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Wound Quotations

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Kahlil Gibran

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September.
Jesse James

Never wound a snake; kill it.
Harriet Tubman

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
Jimmy Buffett

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl

Wound Translations

wound in Afrikaans is wond
wound in Dutch is aanschieten
wound in French is blessons, blessent, blessez, blessure, blesser
wound in Italian is fegriva, ferire
wound in Latin is vulnus, seco, ictus, plaga
wound in Portuguese is ferida
wound in Spanish is herida

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