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- pronunciation:
- wund
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A wound is a cut or other injury to a part of your body.
The nurse took the bandages off Cody's wound. She said it was healing well.
- synonyms:
- cut, injury
- similar words:
- bruise, harm, hurt, scrape, scratch, sore
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| definition 2: |
A wound is an injury to a person's feelings or to their reputation.
Hearing those terrible things again opened up old wounds for Jacob.- synonyms:
- hurt, injury, insult
- similar words:
- blow, cut, distress, grief, harm, pain, shock
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| related words: |
bite, burn |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
wounds, wounding, wounded |
| definition: |
When you wound a part of your body, you get a cut in it, or you hurt it a lot in some other way. If someone wounds another person, they injure that person in a serious way.
Mark fell and wounded his knee. He wounded it because he hit a rock when he fell.The enemy soldier wounded the young man, but army doctors were able to save his life.- synonyms:
- cut, hurt, injure
- similar words:
- damage, distress, harm, insult, offend, pain, pierce, scrape, scratch, stab, sting
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| related words: |
bite, bruise, hurt, kill |
| derivation: |
woundingly (adv.) |
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