wound
Noun:
- An injury to living tissue, especially one involving a cut or break in the skin: A physical injury, often caused by violence or accident.
- A figurative injury to one's feelings, pride, or reputation: A psychological or emotional hurt.
- A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat: An injury sustained in war.
Verb:
- To inflict a physical injury on someone or something: To cause a wound.
- To hurt someone's feelings or pride: To cause emotional pain or offense.
Adjective:
- Put in a coil: This is an archaic or literary past tense and past participle of the verb 'wind' (meaning to twist or coil). It is not related to the injury meaning.
Noun (Physical Injury):
- The nurse cleaned and bandaged the deep wound on his leg.
- Soldiers were evacuated from the battlefield with severe wounds.
Noun (Emotional Injury):
- His harsh criticism left a deep emotional wound.
- The betrayal was a wound that took years to heal.
Verb (To inflict physical injury):
- The shrapnel wounded several civilians.
- He was wounded in the shoulder during the fight.
Verb (To hurt feelings):
- She was deeply wounded by their rejection.
- His sarcastic remark wounded my pride.
"To lick one's wounds": To retreat and recover after a defeat or a hurtful experience.
- After losing the election, the candidate went home to lick his wounds.
"A mortal wound": An injury causing or likely to cause death.
- The hero suffered a mortal wound while defending the city.
"To reopen an old wound": To revive a past emotional pain or unpleasant memory.
- Bringing up that argument only served to reopen old wounds.
Wounded (adj): Injured, either physically or emotionally.
- The wounded soldiers were taken to a field hospital.
- He had a wounded look in his eyes.
Wounding (adj/n): Causing injury or hurt.
- His wounding comments were completely unnecessary.
Wind (v): To twist or coil. The past tense 'wound' is a homograph with a different meaning.
- She wound the thread around the spool. (This is the verb 'wind' in past tense).
- Injury (n): Harm or damage.
- Laceration (n): A deep cut or tear in skin or flesh.
- Hurt (v/n): To cause pain or distress.
- Offend (v): To cause upset or resentment.
- Trauma (n): A severe emotional shock or physical injury.
(Note: 'Wound' itself is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. The related actions are more often expressed with verbs like 'hurt' or 'injure').
"Rub salt in the wound": To make a difficult situation even worse for someone.
- Losing his job was bad enough, but having his car stolen the same day really rubbed salt in the wound.
"Time heals all wounds": Emotional pain lessens as time passes.
- She was heartbroken, but time heals all wounds.
- the act of inflicting a wound
- 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
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- hurt the feelings of
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
- This remark really bruised my ego
- cause injuries or bodily harm to