wound

1. 1

   An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

   • Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
   • 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.
2. 2

   An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.; An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

3. 3

   A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.figuratively

   • It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

syn. injury · lesion

1. 1

   To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.transitive

   • The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
2. 2

   To hurt (a person's feelings).transitive

   • The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of windform-ofparticiplepast

   • “[…] 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-