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wound¹

  • /ˈwuːnd/ UK
  • /ˈwʉwnd/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈwund/ US
  • /ˈwʉːnd/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈwʉnd/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /ˈwaʊnd/ obsolete

Rhymes with -uːnd

Where it comes from

Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-West Germanic *wundu, from Proto-Germanic *wundō (“wound”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, toil, win”).

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wuunde (“wound”), Cimbrian bunta (“wound”), Dutch wond, wonde (“wound”), German Wunde (“wonde”), Luxembourgish Wonn (“wound”), Yiddish וווּנד (vund, “wound”), Icelandic und (“wound”), Gothic *𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*wunda, “wound”) (whence 𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍆𐌽𐌹 (wundufni, “disease, plague”)); also Old Armenian վանդեմ (vandem, “to destroy; to catch a disease”).

Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną (“to wound”).

Cognates

Cognate with Cimbrian buntan (“to wound”), Dutch wonden (“to wound”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (gawundōn, “to wound”).

noun wounds · wounde

  1. 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.
  2. figuratively A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc. It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
  3. An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

verb wounds · wounding · wounded · wound

  1. transitive To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
  2. transitive To hurt (a person's feelings). The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

wound²

  • /ˈwaʊ̯nd/ US, UK
  • [ˈwaʊ̯nd] US, UK
  • /wawnd/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈwæʊ̯nd/
  • [ˈwæʊ̯nd]
  • /ˈwaːnd/
  • [ˈwaːnd]
  • /ˈwʊnd/ Northumbria
  • [ˈwʊnd] Northumbria

Rhymes with -aʊnd

Where it comes from

See wind (Etymology 2)

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of wind “[…] 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

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