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Definition of Wound
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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

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

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Joseph Addison

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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