English dictionary

wound

/w/u/nd/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

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

noun.state

Synonyms lesion

Source: WordNet 3.0
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

noun.event

Synonyms combat injury injury

Source: WordNet 3.0
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

noun.feeling

Examples
He feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound.

Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.

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.

Source: WordNet 3.0
the act of inflicting a wound

noun.act

Synonyms wounding

Source: WordNet 3.0
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.

noun

Source: webster1913

cause injuries or bodily harm to

verb.body

Synonyms injure

Source: WordNet 3.0
hurt the feelings of

verb.emotion

Synonyms bruise hurt injure offend spite

Source: WordNet 3.0
To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.

verb

Source: webster1913