wound
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An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
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To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
To hurt (a person's feelings).
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
- I find neglect or rejection from my own community much harder to take and more wounding than the same thing or worse from the outside world.
simple past and past participle of wind
The neighborhood
Derived
axe wound, Blighty wound, contact wound, defense wound, defensive wound, dirty wound, entrance wound, entry wound, exit wound, flesh wound, gutter wound, hatchet wound, hesitation wound, keyhole wound, lick one's wounds, mother wound, open wound, put a band-aid on a bullet wound, reopen old wounds, rub salt in the wound, salt in the wound, self-defense wound, stab wound, tentative wound, time heals all wounds, time heals every wound, turn the knife in the wound, twist the knife in the wound, wound cambium, wound collecting, wound collection, wound collector, wound cork, wound gall, wound gum, wound parasite, wound wood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wound. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wound. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at wound
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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