an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
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a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
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a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
<noun.feeling> 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
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely {Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS. windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan, Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf. {Wander}, {Wend}.] 1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton.
2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak.
3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. ``To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.'' --Shak.
In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer.
Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick.
Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison.
4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak.
Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue.
5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
{To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil.
{To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.
{To wind up}. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. ``Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.'' --Dryden. ``Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.'' --Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. ``Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.'' --Waller.
Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. ``Hunters who wound their horns.'' --Pennant.
Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. --Pope.
That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W. Scott.
Wound \Wound\, imp. & p. p. of {Wind} to twist, and {Wind} to sound by blowing.
Wound \Wound\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde, Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG. wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to suffer, E. win. [root]140. Cf. Zounds.] 1. 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. --Chaucer.
Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. --Shak.
2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
3. (Criminal Law) 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.
Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a ``capricious novelty.'' It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.
{Wound gall} (Zo["o]l.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil ({Ampeloglypter sesostris}) whose larv[ae] inhabit the galls.
Wound \Wound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wounded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wounding}.] [AS. wundian. [root]140. See {Wound}, n.] 1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. --1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. --1 Cor. viii. 12.
coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj. curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals; as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on the deck. Opposite of {uncoiled}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself};{curled, curled up}; {involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured)}; {looped, whorled}; {twined, twisted}; {convoluted}; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; {wound}] [WordNet 1.5]
The process of post-crash reforms began with calls to remake the markets and wound up a year later with a series of rather technical adjustments.
"It was unquestionably a gunshot wound," said Hollywood Police Chief Richard Witt, who added that a powder burn indicated the shot was fired at close range and was possibly self-inflicted.
More than a half dozen tornadoes accompanying the hurricane hit the Brownsville area today in advance of the center of the storm, blowing over at least two homes and injuring one person, a boy who suffered a minor head wound.
He was tentatively listed in stable condition and was to undergo surgery for a chest wound at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Mrs. Palme identified Pettersson in court as the man she saw standing a few feet away immediately after he husband fell with a fatal gunshot wound.
Mortgage & Asset-Backed Securities Mortgage securities wound up the shortened session as much as 1/8 lower.
She wound up going back to work the next Monday, after a follow-up visit the day after her release.
Because of an error in addresses, narcotics officers David Rasche and Richard Young raid his house and wound him in the process.
He set out to find himself and wound up in federal prison on an auto-theft charge.
They tied Julio to the fence to keep his weight from making the wound larger or possibly fracturing his neck, said Firefighter Peter Cozeolino.
Describing his findings in May, Cary said the experiment has shown that a bullet wound to the brain stops respiration but, if respiration is supported artificially, the animal will begin breathing again on its own.
Pentagon strategists recently discovered that if war broke out, Soviet bombers could gravely wound the U.S. simply by attacking a small German plant 30 miles west of the Czechoslovakian border.
When the Depression wound down Herbie left the Army and resumed the career that led to his deserved acclaim.
It started near the front door and before long wound around the corner.
The body of a man killed by a gunshot wound to his head was found near a housing project about 2 a.m., the likely victim of random gunfire, said Hepburn.
Ultimately, unable to distinguish between conversations he'd heard five minutes or five years before, "S" wound up in an asylum.
But Price's consciousness took a detour and wound up on the ceiling.
The identity of the man, who suffered a single gunshot wound to the upper body, and his relationship with the girl were withheld until family members could be notified, Ducoulombier said.
"Animal Control caught two and the third jumped over the fence," Ham said of the stray turkeys that wound up in her fenced-in backyard Monday.
Henry Staggs, who fled from a state prison at DeQuincy in southwestern Louisiana in 1970, wound up in Columbia, Tenn., where he operated an auto repair ship as Douglas Gillette.
Officer Paul Dunbar Jr., 31, was found with a gunshot wound in his chest in front of a home, said police spokeswoman Allene Ray. No arrests were made.
Much of the debt was later refinanced by General Electric Credit, which wound up with 26% of Tiffany's common before the May sale.
The Basses (virtually the only people in the tale who were consistently honest, at least so far as the author says) wound up with a profit that so far exceeds $1 billion.
Blackman's photographs of Elizabeth Ray, the non-typing secretary and ex-mistress of former Ohio Rep. Wayne Hayes, wound up in Hustler magazine.
The Treasury's latest 30-year bonds wound up the day with gains of about a quarter of a point, or $2.50 for each $1,000 face amount, the same as on Monday.
A third policeman suffered a bullet wound in the chest and was hospitalized in serious but stable condition after the attack late Friday in the huge township outside Johannesburg, police said.
President Bush shone the White House spotlight today on a school program that teaches youngsters to resist drugs, and wound up hearing a tough lecture from a 13-year-old against the death penalty he favors.
At the same time, Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa of Syria wound up meetings on Lebanon with Jordanian officials.
Meese, one of the last prosecution witnesses, wound up his testimony Wednesday, his second day on the stand.
South Africa's Archbishop Tutu warned of widespread black unrest if President de Klerk didn't redress "the deep wound" of land apartheid.