noun

definition

An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

definition

A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.

example

It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

definition

An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

verb

definition

To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

example

The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

definition

To hurt (a person's feelings).

example

The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

Examples of wound in a Sentence

The wound healed itself.

Natasha's wound healed in that way.

The wound had begun to heal from within.

His dark eyes swept over her, lingering at her neck, where her wound had healed with Darkyn's power.

She wound the twine around her finger.

The wound closed immediately.

This is the least bad wound I.ve had yet.

Slowly he relinquished the care of the wound to her.

The wound healed itself quickly.

The robed man led her into the fortress and wound his way through bright intersections, down stairs, and into a more opulent part of the building.

Now, mostly bound to its banks by ice, the river looked much less menacing as it wound its way downward.

She did as he said and pressed hard on the arrow wound until the bleeding slowed.

The path wound its way downward, dumping them into a draw far enough away to be safe.

Mr. Thomas Morley was admitted with a gunshot wound to his leg, sustained, according to him, when he was mugged in an alley while taking a short cut to his car.

The wound healed, leaving the drops on his thumb.

He didn't know if she hadn't had time to fix her wound or didn't know how; the wound was on the verge of becoming infected.

No wound was there.

He didn't drink long and sealed the wound after.

His step grew quicker, and his face brightened as they wound their way through the compound.

While the autopsy questioned the day-old curious knife wound in his backside, it was assumed he'd stupidly sat on a very sharp object.

Maybe his wound hurt from lifting her.

He didn't drink long, and when he was finished he touched his thumb to the wound, cauterizing it again.

The wooden things wound their long arms around Zeb and the Wizard and held them fast.

Gabe made his way through the narrow alleys and disjointed walkways that wound like a maze through the market.

As promised, he did not drink long, and she felt him press another finger to the wound to seal the seepage.

Kris looked at him, anger building.  The muscular half-demon was bleeding from a wound in his chest.  His dark eyes glowed like a demon's, though his face was still that of an Immortal.

He served in the Seven Days, receiving a severe wound at the action of Frazier's Farm.

Indignant at his faithlessness, she refused to help him, and Paris returned to Troy and died of his wound.

It is obtained by making incisions in the bark of the trees, and appears to be formed as the result of the wound, not to be secreted normally.

The leg wound from Shipton's flailing ice ax had been an eight-stitcher of no permanent consequence.

As the prisoners, clad in penitential haircloth, were led across the bridge, wanton boys thrust sharp sticks between the planks to wound their feet.

He harried the Limousin and laid siege to the castle of Chalus; while directing an assault he was wounded in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt, and, the wound mortifying from unskilful treatment or his own want of care, he died on the 6th of April 1199.

The head of the insect contains a muscular pharynx by means of which the blood from the wound inflicted by the proboscis (labium) is pumped into the alimentary canal and the so-called sucking-stomach.

If this cannot be done, the main artery of the limb must be exposed by dissection at the most accessible point between the wound and the heart, and there ligatured.

When a special poison has entered the wound at the time of its infliction or at some subsequent date, it is necessary to provide against septic conditions of the wound itself and blood-poisoning of the general circulation.

The speech in which he wound up the debate on the second reading was one of the finest, if not indeed the very finest, which he ever delivered.

In March 1863, still troubled by his wound, he was assigned to the command of the south-west, and in May was ordered to take immediate command of all the Confederate forces in Mississippi, then threatened by Grant's movement on Vicksburg.

Two years later, soon after his release, his wound proved mortal.

The painful wound is speedily discoloured and swollen.

Then make a free incision into the wound.

Then bandage the limb downwards, progressing towards the wound; repeat this several times.

Direct application into the widened wound of calcium hypochlorite, i.e.

Vigorous cauterization with nitrate of silver, driving the stick into the widened wound, is also good, and it is a remedy which one can carry in the pocket.

The fangs of the bungarums are shorter than those of the cobras, and cannot penetrate so deeply into the wound.

Accidents are rarely caused by them, because they are extremely shy and swim away on the least alarm; but, when surprised in the submarine cavities forming their natural retreats, they will, like any other poisonous terrestrial snake, dart at the disturbing object; and, when out of the water, they attempt to bite every object near them, even turning round to wound their own bodies.

His death was variously attributed to disease, the effects of lightning, or a wound received in a campaign against the Huns; but it seems more probable that he was murdered by the soldiers, who were averse from further campaigns against Persia, at the instigation of Arrius Aper, prefect of the praetorian guard.

On his arrival before Troy he was healed of his wound by Machaon, and 'slew Paris; shortly afterwards the city was taken.

Both subjects were intimately associated with the temple, for Atalanta had dedicated in it the face and tusks of the boar, which had been awarded to her as the first to wound it; and Telephus was the son of Heracles and the priestess Auge.

Part was in the river fitting out under Blake, who had not fully recovered from his wound.

In November, his old wound troubling him, he obtained a short leave of absence, expecting to return to his corps in the near future.

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