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How to pronounce wounds
IPA transcription: ['wundz]
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Noun
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an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
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a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
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a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); ; ; --Robert Frost
“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”
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the act of inflicting a wound
Verb
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cause injuries or bodily harm to
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hurt the feelings of
“She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”
“This remark really bruised my ego”
Usage examples
- He eventually passed out from previous wounds inflicted by Riptide.
- Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where his wounds were pronounced serious.
- Morgan, however, quickly recovered from his wounds.
- Evans survived five wounds during the war.
- According to the legend, his wounds prevented him from staying in the saddle.
- A soldier has been discharged from the king's service because of his wounds.
- The mother in-law died from the repeated stab wounds and the brutal beating.
- He blesses her with each drink, and her wounds are healed.
- Jeffords gives the boy water and heals his wounds.
- He subsequently died of the wounds suffered in the bombing.