WOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wound mean? 

• WOUND (noun)
  The noun WOUND has 4 senses:

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

2. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

3. a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

4. the act of inflicting a wound

  Familiarity information: WOUND used as a noun is uncommon.

• WOUND (adjective)
  The adjective WOUND has 1 sense:

1. put in a coil

  Familiarity information: WOUND used as an adjective is very rare.

• WOUND (verb)
  The verb WOUND has 2 senses:

1. cause injuries or bodily harm to

2. hurt the feelings of

  Familiarity information: WOUND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

lesion; wound

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

combat injury; injury; wound

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"):

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

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

Derivation:

wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context 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

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

distress; hurt; suffering (psychological suffering)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of inflicting a wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

wound; wounding

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)

• WOUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in a coil

Similar:

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

• WOUND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they wound    ... he / she / it wounds   
Past simple: wounded   
Past participle: wounded   
-ing form: wounding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause injuries or bodily harm to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

injure; wound

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

hurt (give trouble or pain to)

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

harm (cause or do harm to)

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

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)

disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid (injure permanently)

subluxate (sprain or dislocate slightly)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound

Context example:

This remark really bruised my ego

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

 Context examples 

There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This allele, which encodes platelet factor-4 protein, is involved in coagulation regulation, inflammation and wound repair.

(PF4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Forms of PDGF help to heal wounds and to repair damage to blood vessel walls.

(PDGF, NCI Dictionary)

We could not leave her lying wounded upon the floor.

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

A physician assistant may take medical histories, do physical exams, take blood and urine samples, care for wounds, and give injections and immunizations.

(Physician assistant, NCI Dictionary)

They help form blood clots to slow or stop bleeding, and to help wounds heal.

(Platelet, NCI Dictionary)

"I know he is a good one," added Mrs. March, with decided approval, as she wound up the clock.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Forms of platelet-derived growth factor help to heal wounds and to repair damage to blood vessel walls.

(Platelet-derived growth factor, NCI Dictionary)

As a strong chemoattractant for neutrophils and fibroblasts, PF4 probably has a role in inflammation and wound repair.

(Platelet Factor 4, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

It uses oxygen at high pressure to treat wounds and serious infections.

(Oxygen Therapy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)