wound
wound is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Wind. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- past tense & past participle. of Wind
- imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
- 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.
- noun. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
- 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.
- noun. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
- noun. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
- noun. the act of inflicting a wound
- noun. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- noun. a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)--Robert Frost
"he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"
"deep in her breast lives the silent wound"
- noun. an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- verb. cause injuries or bodily harm to
- verb. hurt the feelings of
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"
"This remark really bruised my ego"
- adjective. put in a coil
Synonyms
wounding, injury, lesion, injure, bruise, hurt, offend, spite
Common word forms
wounds, wounded, wounder, woundly, wounding, woundable, woundless
Words from these letters
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