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wound

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Etymology 1

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Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.

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Noun

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wound (plural wounds)

  2. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
  3. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
    It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
  4. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
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Verb

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wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)

  1. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
    Synonyms: damage, harm; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:hurt
    The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
  2. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
    Synonyms: affront, hurt; see also Thesaurus:offend
    The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
    • 1984 December 8, Michael Bronski, Andrea Loewenstein, “Family & Friends: Writers Talk Community”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 12:
      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.
Usage notes
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  • In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
  • Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.
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Etymology 2

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See wind (Etymology 2)

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Verb

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wound

  1. simple past and past participle of wind
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
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References

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  1. ^ Grandgent, C. H. (1899) “From Franklin to Lowell”, in James W. Bright, editor, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association‎[1], volume 14, number 2, Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, page 238
  2. ^ Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎[2], volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, →OCLC, page 150.
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