wound

1. 1.

   an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

   Synonymslesion

   Broaderinjury

   Narrowerraw woundstigmataabrasioncutlacerationbite
2. 2.

   a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

   Synonymsinjurycombat injury

   Broaderpersonnel casualty

   Narrowerblighty woundflesh wound

   military

3. 3.

   a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

   “he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound”

   “deep in her breast lives the silent wound”

   “The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it”

   Broaderdistress
4. 4.

   the act of inflicting a wound

   Synonymswounding

   Broaderdamage

1. 1.

   cause injuries or bodily harm to

   Synonymsinjure

   Broaderhurt

   Narrowertrampleconcusscalktorturepulltraumatizemaimtwistsubluxatedisable
2. 2.

   hurt the feelings of

   “She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”

   “This remark really bruised my ego”

   Synonymshurtinjurebruiseoffendspite

   Broaderarouse

   Narrowerdisslaceratestinghumiliate

1. 1.

   put in a coil

   Similarcoiled

Other forms of wound

plural

wounds·

past tense

wounded·

present participle

wounding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wound

What does wound mean?

wound means "an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wound?

wound has 1 syllable: wound. In IPA it is /ˈwaʊnd/.

What is another word for wound?

Close synonyms include lesion, injury, combat injury, wounding, injure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wound a common word?

wound is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.