Usually means: Injury to body; breaks skin.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wound, wound, wound, wound, wound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wound, wound, wound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wound, wound: Wordnik
  7. wound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wound: Wiktionary
  9. wound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wound: Dictionary.com
  13. wound (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wound (disambiguation), Wound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wound: Rhymezone
  19. Wound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Wound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. wound: Free Dictionary
  23. wound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. wound: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. wound: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Wound: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. wound: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. wound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wound: Idioms
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wound (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. wound: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. wound: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
▸ noun:  (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

Similar:
hurt, injury, injure, offend, spite, coiled, lesion, combat injury, unhealed, gash, more...

Opposite:
heal, mend, repair, restore, cure

Types:
laceration, abrasion, contusion, avulsion, puncture, gunshot, stab, burn, bite, frostbite, more...

Phrases:
wound up, Wound healing, wound infection, open wound, wound care, more...

Adjectives:
open, mortal, deep, severe, old, slight, abdominal, fatal, small, surgical, external

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Similar:
hurt, injury, injure, offend, spite, coiled, lesion, combat injury, unhealed, gash, more...

Opposite:
heal, mend, repair, restore, cure

Types:
laceration, abrasion, contusion, avulsion, puncture, gunshot, stab, burn, bite, frostbite, more...

Phrases:
wound up, Wound healing, wound infection, open wound, wound care, Gunshot wound, wound down, bullet wound, stab wound, surgical wound, wound repair, puncture wound, flesh wound, exit wound, Wound dehiscence, more...

Adjectives:
open, mortal, deep, severe, old, slight, abdominal, fatal, small, surgical, external

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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