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wound wound

Spelling: [woond; Older Use and Literary wound]

IPA: /wund; Older Use and Literary waʊnd/

Wound is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in wound (dnouw).

Definitions for wound

noun

1. an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
2. a similar injury to the tissue of a plant.
3. an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc.
4. air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface:
5. a gale; storm; hurricane.
6. any stream of air, as that produced by a bellows or fan.
7. air that is blown or forced to produce a musical sound in singing or playing an instrument.
8. wind instrument.
9. wind instruments collectively.
10. the winds, the members of an orchestra or band who play the wind instruments.
11. breath or breathing:
12. the power of breathing freely, as during continued exertion.
13. any influential force or trend:
14. a hint or intimation:
15. air carrying an animal's odor or scent.
16. solar wind.
17. empty talk; mere words.
18. vanity; conceitedness.
19. gas generated in the stomach and intestines.
20. Boxing Slang. the pit of the stomach where a blow may cause a temporary shortness of breath; solar plexus.
21. any direction of the compass.
22. a state of unconcern, recklessness, or abandon:
23. the act of winding.
24. a single turn, twist, or bend of something wound:
25. a twist producing an uneven surface.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of wind2. and wind3 .

Idioms

1. lick one's wounds, to attempt to heal one's injuries or soothe one's hurt feelings after a defeat.
2. between wind and water, (of a ship) at or near the water line. in a vulnerable or precarious spot:
3. break wind, to expel gas from the stomach and bowels through the anus.
4. how the wind blows / lies, what the tendency or probability is: Also, which way the wind blows.
5. in the teeth of the wind, sailing directly into the wind; against the wind. Also, in the eye of the wind, in the wind's eye.
6. in the wind, about to occur; imminent; impending:
7. off the wind, away from the wind; with the wind at one's back. (of a sailing vessel) headed into the wind with sails shaking or aback.
8. on the wind, as close as possible to the wind. Also, on a wind.
9. sail close to the wind, Also, sail close on a wind. to sail as nearly as possible in the direction from which the wind is blowing. to practice economy in the management of one's affairs. to verge on a breach of propriety or decency. to escape (punishment, detection, etc.) by a narrow margin; take a risk.
10. take the wind out of one's sails, to surprise someone, especially with unpleasant news; stun; shock; flabbergast:
11. out of wind, (of boards, plasterwork, etc.) flat and true.

Verb phrases

1. wind down, to lessen in intensity so as to bring or come to a gradual end: to calm down; relax:
2. wind up, to bring to a state of great tension; excite (usually used in the past participle): to bring or come to an end; conclude: to settle or arrange in order to conclude: to become ultimately: Baseball. (of a pitcher) to execute a windup.

verb (used with object)

1. to inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt.
2. to expose to wind or air.
3. to follow by the scent.
4. to make short of wind or breath, as by vigorous exercise.
5. to let recover breath, as by resting after exertion.
6. to encircle or wreathe, as with something twined, wrapped, or placed about.
7. to roll or coil (thread, string, etc.) into a ball, on a spool, or the like (often followed by up).
8. to remove or take off by unwinding (usually followed by off or from):
9. to twine, fold, wrap, or place about something.
10. to make (a mechanism) operational by tightening the mainspring with a key (often followed by up):
11. to haul or hoist by means of a winch, windlass, or the like (often followed by up).
12. to make (one's or its way) in a bending or curving course:
13. to make (one's or its way) by indirect, stealthy, or devious procedure:
14. to blow (a horn, a blast, etc.).
15. to sound by blowing.
16. to signal or direct by blasts of the horn or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to inflict a wound.
2. to catch the scent or odor of game.
3. to change direction; bend; turn; take a frequently bending course; meander:
4. to have a circular or spiral course or direction.
5. to coil or twine about something:
6. to proceed circuitously or indirectly.
7. to undergo winding or winding up.
8. to be twisted or warped, as a board.

Origin of wound

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English wund; cognate with Old High German wunta (German Wunde), Old Norse und, Gothic wunds; (v.) Middle English wounden, Old English wundian, derivati

Examples for wound

After weeks or months in the line only a wound can offer him the comfort of safety, shelter, and a bed.

How so, I asked him, when that cannot wound without the application?

All you had to do when you got it inside a man was to turn it round a bit, and the wound gaped and tore.

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

And in the painful cleaning of the wound he did not murmur once.

In spite of the wound he seized the musket and forcibly wrested it from our hero.

Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

The cuts had been by accident by falling on a metal object after which he then washed the wound with the available water.

The bullets of Allister and Clune might have gone home— they were intended to kill, not to wound.

Sierra had clung to life for seven weeks before finally succumbing to her wound.