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wound::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | combat injury, injury |
| Type of | loss, personnel casualty |
| Has types | flesh wound, blighty wound |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | injure |
| Type of | hurt |
| Has types | stab, invalid, knife, sprain, maim, skin, overstretch, pip, pull, wrick, rick, run down, run over, scrape, shock, shoot, wrench, twist, turn, traumatize, traumatise, break, bruise, calk, trample, concuss, contuse, disable, torture, excruciate, fracture, graze, handicap, harm, hit, torment, subluxate, incapacitate |
| Derivation | wounding |
wound::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | distress, hurt, suffering |
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.
Examples of wound
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Thornton forced two quick turnovers and wound up with four steals in 12 minutes.
From the bostonherald.com
I was looking for some closure as the play wound down but found absolutely none.
From the gothamgal.com
Nanoparticles of silver are currently being used in new types of wound dressing.
From the newscientist.com
Thomas reclaimed his old status and wound up appearing in 57 games to Rask's 23.
From the bostonherald.com
Much of it had been soapberry thickets, and poison ivy wound its way throughout.
From the kansas.com
Finally, the mist rises and Arthur slays his enemy, but receives a mortal wound.
From the theepochtimes.com
I wound up with 40 cookies this way, but I prefer larger ones to smaller anyway.
From the sacbee.com
He wound up with 15 homers and 85 RBIs in 150 games between the teams that year.
From the freep.com
If they wound up in Vienna for four days, they might put away 20 apple strudels.
From the ocregister.com
- An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- Injure: cause injuries or bodily harm to
- Put in a coil
- A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- Hurt: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
- 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
- In medicine, a wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
- The things of which there can be sight, hearing, and learning ---- these are what I especially prize. ...
- Lust for Blood is the eleventh original album by electro-industrial band Velvet Acid Christ. The album's promotional single is titled Wound, which was on the Deutche Alternative Chart for 8 weeks in 2006.
