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noun
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: crime law
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verb
To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: damage, harm, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, mayhem, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, scathe, vulnerate, wet, wound, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, excruciate, irritate, pang, pine, rack, throe, torment, torture, wring
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To hurt (a person's feelings).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: affront, hurt, abuse, burn, carry, cut down, disrespect, dis, diss, give stick, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, insult, lapidate, qualifier, misbid, misrespect, misuse, offend, send, scandal, scandalize, slag, slag off, sledge, slight, slur, sneap, spite, wound
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verb
simple past and past participle of wind
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
put in a coil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
the act of inflicting a wound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wounding
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: damage, harm, hurt, scathe
noun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: injury, combat injury
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: personnel casualty, loss
Narrower terms: blighty wound, flesh wound
noun
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)--Robert Frost
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: distress, hurt, suffering
noun
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lesion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: injury, hurt, harm, trauma
Narrower terms: raw wound, stigmata, abrasion, scratch, scrape, excoriation, cut, gash, slash, slice, laceration, bite
verb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: injure
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hurt
Narrower terms: trample, concuss, calk, torture, excruciate, torment, pull, overstretch, traumatize, traumatise, shock, maim, twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick, subluxate, disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap, harm, run down, run over, fracture, break, shoot, hit, pip, knife, stab, skin, scrape, bruise, contuse, graze
verb
hurt the feelings of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
Narrower terms: diss, insult, affront, lacerate, sting, humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
History
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-West Germanic *wundu, from Proto-Germanic *wundō (“wound”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, toil, win”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wuunde (“wound”), Cimbrian bunta (“wound”), Dutch wond, wonde (“wound”), German Wunde (“wonde”), Luxembourgish Wonn (“wound”), Yiddish וווּנד (vund, “wound”), Icelandic und (“wound”), Gothic *𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*wunda, “wound”) (whence 𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍆𐌽𐌹 (wundufni, “disease, plague”)); also Old Armenian վանդեմ (vandem, “to destroy; to catch a disease”). Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną (“to wound”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian buntan (“to wound”), Dutch wonden (“to wound”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (gawundōn, “to wound”).
See wind (Etymology 2)
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