Wound: Definition and part of speech

Wound

  1. imp. & p. p. of Wind
  2. imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
  3. n. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
  4. n. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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