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WOUND, n. [G.]

1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.

2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.

WOUND, v.t. To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.

He was wounded for our transgressions. Isaiah 53.

WOUND, pret. and pp. of wind.



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WOUND, n. [G.]

1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.

2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.

WOUND, v.t. To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.

He was wounded for our transgressions. Isaiah 53.

WOUND, pret. and pp. of wind.


WOUND, n. [Sax. wund; D. wond; G. wunde; W. gwanu, to thrust, to stab.]

  1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.
  2. Injury; hurt; as, a wound given to credit or reputation.

WOUND, pp. [and pret. of Wind.]


WOUND, v.t.

To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree. He was wounded for our transgressions. – Is. liii.


Wound
  1. imp. *** p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
  2. 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.

    Chaucer.

    Showers of blood
    Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.     Shak.

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

    The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.

  4. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
  5. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

    When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12.

  6. 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.

    * Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." It is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern English, as in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old English to represent the sound of modern English oo was borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference whether the word was taken from the French or not, provided it is old enough in English to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the French at a later time, or influenced by French, may have the French sound.

    Wound gall (Zoöl.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvæ inhabit the galls.

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Wound

WOUND, noun [G.]

1. A breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants, caused by violence or external force. The self-healing power of living beings, animal or vegetable, by which the parts separated in wounds, tend to unite and become sound, is a remarkable proof of divine benevolence and wisdom.

2. Injury; hurt; as a wound given to credit or reputation.

WOUND, verb transitive To hurt by violence; as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.

He was wounded for our transgressions. Isaiah 53:5.

WOUND, preterit tense and participle passive of wind.

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