Dictionary entry details
• WOUND (noun)
Meaning:
Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
wound; lesion
Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):
harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wound"):
bite (a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person)
laceration (a torn ragged wound)
cut; gash; slash; slice (a wound made by cutting)
abrasion; excoriation; scrape; scratch (an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off)
stigmata (marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ)
raw wound (a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue)
Meaning:
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
combat injury; wound; injury
Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):
loss; personnel casualty (military personnel lost by death or capture)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wound"):
blighty wound (a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad)
flesh wound (a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones)
Meaning:
A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):
distress; hurt; suffering (psychological suffering)
Meaning:
The act of inflicting a wound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
wounding; wound
Hypernyms ("wound" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
• WOUND (adjective)
Meaning:
Put in a coil
Similar:
coiled (curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals))
• WOUND (verb)
Meaning:
Cause injuries or bodily harm to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
wound; injure
Hypernyms (to "wound" is one way to...):
hurt (give trouble or pain to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wound"):
harm (cause or do harm to)
run down; run over (injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle)
break; fracture (fracture a bone of)
hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)
knife; stab (use a knife on)
scrape; skin (bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of)
bruise; contuse (injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of)
graze (break the skin (of a body part) by scraping)
disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid (injure permanently)
subluxate (sprain or dislocate slightly)
trample (injure by trampling or as if by trampling)
concuss (injure the brain; sustain a concussion)
calk (injure with a calk)
excruciate; torment; torture (subject to torture)
overstretch; pull (strain abnormally)
shock; traumatise; traumatize (inflict a trauma upon)
maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)
rick; sprain; turn; twist; wrench; wrick (twist suddenly so as to sprain)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Hurt the feelings of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
spite; bruise; injure; wound; offend; hurt
Context examples:
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests / This remark really bruised me ego
Hypernyms (to "wound" is one way to...):
arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wound"):
affront; diss; insult (treat, mention, or speak to rudely)
lacerate (deeply hurt the feelings of; distress)
sting (cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging)
abase; chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot wound Sue
