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noun

Definition of woundnext
as in injury

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verb

ˈwünd How to pronounce wound (audio)
1
as in to damage
to cause bodily damage to an arrow had wounded the animal, but the vet was able to save it

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2
as in to insult
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in that callous comment really wounded me

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Recent Examples of wound
Noun
The preliminary cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound; the release noted that the boy was at a family gathering for the July 4th holiday. — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 Medical personnel are trying to clean up a bloody wound on the front of Jan Paul van Hecke's head after the Dutch ' defender caught a cleat in the head. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 30 June 2026
Verb
In Brooklyn, New York’s Coney Island neighborhood, a man in a black ski mask opened fire on a family barbecue late Saturday night, wounding at least eight people, including four children. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 July 2026 The payments were introduced following a 2024 assassination attempt on Fico, who was shot and gravely wounded after a government meeting, shocking the small country and reverberating across Europe. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for wound
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wound
  1. injury
  2. damage
  3. insult
  4. abrasion
  5. injure
  6. offend
  7. hurt
  8. outrage
Noun
  • Seigler remained down for several minutes, bleeding from one arm and grimacing in pain as interim manager Chad Tracy and trainers rushed out to check him for a head injury.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 9 July 2026
  • Not bad considering his fight to find feel after missing most of last year with injuries and enduring a five-start slump from the end of May through the middle of June.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
Definition of injury
Verb
  • Driving through deep water can also damage a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026
  • Driving through deep water can also damage a vehicle's mechanical and electrical systems.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2026
Definition of damage
Verb
  • The Los Angeles Dodgers insulted their Catholic paying customers by honoring a drag group that parades around as nuns and mocks their religion.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • But insult records and revenge songs go back to well before hip-hop.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Definition of insult
Noun
  • According to the lawsuit, the toddler was taken to the emergency room later that day for evaluation of blunt head trauma and was diagnosed with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and facial abrasions.
    — Shafiq Najib, ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Washing inside out also helps prevent color loss from abrasion, which can leave dark colors looking faded.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Definition of abrasion
Verb
  • On Sunday, Russia bombarded Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv with dozens of missiles and hundreds of strike drones, killing at least 11 and injuring scores more, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and media reports.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • The shootings, which also injured four people, occurred at two Fourth of July block parties about two miles apart, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of injure
Verb
  • This will cause Defender to hang and keep a lock on the offending files that holds the entire disk space.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
  • The murder rate usually rises and falls alongside other crimes, so through the 2010s, with property crime and overall youth offending dropping, criminologists expected the murder trend to follow suit.
    — James Tuttle, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
Definition of offend
Verb
  • Ganfield said she wasn’t hurt and is prioritizing Turner’s recovery.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Patagonia’s owner, Yvonn Chouinard, has designed the various ownership models for the company so that it would be kept out of the hands of outside investors that could push it away from its environmentally focused mission or hurt its employees.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 8 July 2026
Definition of hurt
Verb
  • That those things just become sort of this way to outrage and anger people.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • The crime brought the civil rights struggle onto the national stage and outraged President Kennedy.
    — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
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