wound

Meanings

Noun

• An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Verb

• To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• To hurt (a person's feelings).
• Past of wind

Related

Similar words

• injury, lesion
• slight, slur, insult

Origin

• Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
• See wind (Etymology 2)