an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Used in a Sentence
wound
How to use wound in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for wound.
Editorial note
This wound up in print as, "It's...that we dont think you're important.
Examples12
Definitions7
Parts of speech3
Quick take
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of wound gathered in one view.
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "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"--Robert Frost
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for wound.
noun
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
See also: lesion
noun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
See also: injury
noun
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "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"--Robert Frost
noun
the act of inflicting a wound
See also: wounding
verb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
See also: injure
verb
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
adjective
put in a coil
Example sentences
This wound up in print as, "It's...that we dont think you're important.
You shout at him "fuck you dude what are you laughing at can't you see I've got a fucking wound on my leg?
As a result, that claim wound up being finally dismissed for purposes of this lawsuit.
If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it."That's what I would call a mortal wound to Verizon's arguments.
And everyone would've been mistaken, as Notch wound up demonstrating.
In the end I think she wound up working in some type of higher-end sales/administrative capacity.
Kemal was an officer during the first world war, which Turkey was on the wrong side of and wound up being partitioned by the allied forces.
-Packing of the wound + local epinephrine administration is currently used.
Eventually, I wound up not pursuing the matter in court--talking it over with my attorney, it became quite clear that the legal fees of fighting them would be ruinous.
It might assist in the case of an inappropriately applied tourniquet.-Hemostasis of an abdominal wound.
If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting.
Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use wound in a sentence?
This wound up in print as, "It's...that we dont think you're important.
What does wound mean?
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
What part of speech is wound?
wound is commonly used as noun, verb, adjective.