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Meaning of 'wound'
Meaning of 'wound' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Wound 
- imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing. 2. Wound [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Wind [ imp. & p. p.]- of Wind
3. Wound [ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
- 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.
- To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
- To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
Meaning of 'wound' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. wound [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
- a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
Example in sentence:
- deep in her breast lives the silent wound;
- he feared that mentioning it might reopen the 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
2. wound [ v]
[ v]Meaning (2):
- hurt the feelings of
- hurt the feelings of
Example in sentence:
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests;
- This remark really bruised my ego
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