wound
wownd
- n an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- n a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- n a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
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"--Robert Frost - n the act of inflicting a wound
- v cause injuries or bodily harm to
- v hurt the feelings of
- v to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- v extend in curves and turns
- v arrange or or coil around
- v catch the scent of; get wind of
- v coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- v form into a wreath
- v raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- s put in a coil
- By comparing the wound with wounds documented in medical records from the American Civil War, a time before antibiotics, Churchill hypothesized that Shanidar 3 probably died within .
- SBVT alleges that the wound was a minor, self-inflicted scratch.
- He began his career as a dishwasher, did military service in the kitchen and wound up as an apprentice at El Bulli, which is Catalan for small bulldog.