Wound

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·Impf & ·p.p. of Wind.

II. Wound ·Impf & ·p.p. of Wind.

III. Wound ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

IV. Wound ·noun Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, ·etc.

V. Wound ·noun To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

VI. Wound ·noun To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.

VII. Wound ·noun An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.

VIII. Wound ·noun A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.