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WOUND

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of inflicting a wound

Synonyms:

wound; wounding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):

damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)

Derivation:

wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Synonyms:

combat injury; injury; wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):

loss; personnel casualty (military personnel lost by death or capture)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wound"):

blighty wound (a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad)

flesh wound (a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones)

Derivation:

wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

Example:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):

distress; hurt; suffering (psychological suffering)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lesion; wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wound"):

raw wound (a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue)

stigmata (marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ)

abrasion; excoriation; scrape; scratch (an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off)

cut; gash; slash; slice (a wound made by cutting)

laceration (a torn ragged wound)

bite (a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in a coil

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

coiled (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals))

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause injuries or bodily harm to

Synonyms:

injure; wound

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "wound" is one way to...):

hurt (give trouble or pain to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wound"):

disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid (injure permanently)

harm (cause or do harm to)

run down; run over (injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle)

break; fracture (fracture a bone of)

hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)

knife; stab (use a knife on)

scrape; skin (bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of)

bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of)

graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)

subluxate (sprain or dislocate slightly)

rick; sprain; turn; twist; wrench; wrick (twist suddenly so as to sprain)

maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)

shock; traumatise; traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)

overstretch; pull (strain abnormally)

excruciate; torment; torture (subject to torture)

calk (injure with a calk)

concuss (injure the brain; sustain a concussion)

trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

wound (the act of inflicting a wound)

wound (a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat)

wounding (the act of inflicting a wound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hurt the feelings of

Example:

This remark really bruised my ego

Synonyms:

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "wound" is one way to...):

arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wound"):

affront; diss; insult (treat, mention, or speak to rudely)

lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)

sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)

abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot wound Sue

Credits

 Context examples: 

If you desire further proof, you may see the wound which your people gave me when they followed me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You can get the infection if you rub it in your eyes or nose, the bite wound or a cut.

(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The bacteria enter your body when you get an injury such as a bruise, burn, surgical cut, or wound.

(Cellulitis, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

They carried off their wounded comrade—he was bleedin' like a pig—and then they sat around us, and if ever I saw frozen murder it was in their faces.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then Mr. Alec ran out and knelt beside the wounded man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Platelets help blood to clot when you have a cut or wound.

(Blood, NIH)

Bleeding can be a reaction to a cut or other wound.

(Bleeding, NIH)

This wound was not done with a knife: there have been teeth here!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I do not consider her as meaning to wound my feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Ha! by the five wounds, many men of war have drunk my wine, but never one was more to my fancy than this little Englishman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)