wound

English

Etymology 1

Noun from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną. Indo-European cognates include Albanian unë (“piece of a broken pot, splinter”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: wo͞ond, IPA^(key): /wuːnd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːnd

Noun

wound (plural wounds)

1. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

   • Shakespeare

     Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

2. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, etc.

   It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

3. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Synonyms

• (injury): injury, lesion
• (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
• See also Wikisaurus:injury

Derived terms

• dirty wound
• entry wound
• exit wound
• flesh wound
• rub salt in the wound
• suck one's wounds
• time heals all wounds

Translations

injury

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: plagë f, lëndim
• Arabic: جرح (ar) m (jurḥ)
• Armenian: վերք (verkʿ)
• Aromanian: pleagã f
• Azeri: yara (az)
• Bashkir: яра (yara), йәрәхәт (yäräxät)
• Basque: zauri
• Belarusian: рана f (rána)
• Bulgarian: рана (bg) f (rána)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷口 (zh), 伤口 (zh) (shāngkǒu), 傷害 (zh), 伤害 (zh) (shānghài)

• Czech: rána (cs) f
• Danish: skade (da) c
• Dutch: wonde (nl) f, verwonding (nl) f, kwetsuur f
• Esperanto: vundo (eo)
• Finnish: haava (fi)
• French: blessure (fr) f, plaie (fr) f
• Friulian: feride f
• Georgian: ჭრილობა (čriloba)
• German: Wunde (de) f, Verletzung (de) f
• Greek: τραύμα (el) n (trávma), πληγή (el) f (pligí), πλήγωμα (el) n (plígoma), λαβωματιά (el) f (lavomatiá)
• Haitian Creole: blesi
• Hebrew: פגיעה f (p'gi'á)
• Hindi: घाव (ghāv)
• Hungarian: seb (hu)
• Icelandic: sár (is) n
• Indonesian: luka (id), cedera (id), lecet (id)
• Italian: lesione f, ferita (it) f
• Japanese: 傷 (ja) (きず, kizu), 怪我 (ja) (けが, kega)
• Jèrriais: bliesseûthe f
• Kazakh: жара (jara)

• Khmer: របួស (km) (rɔbuəh)
• Korean: 상처 (ko) (sangcheo)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: plaga (la) f, vulnus n
• Luxembourgish: Wonn f
• Macedonian: рана f (rána)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: sår (no) n, skade (no) m
• Old English: benn, wund
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: زخم (fa) (zaxm)
• Polish: rana (pl) f
• Portuguese: ferimento (pt) m, ferida (pt) f, lesão (pt), mágoa (pt) f, machucado (pt)
• Romanian: rană (ro), plagă (ro), leziune (ro) f
• Romansch: plaja f, plaga f, plaia f, pleja f
• Russian: рана (ru) f (rána), ранение (ru) n (ranénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leòn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рана f

  Roman: rana f

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: rána f
• Slovene: rana (sl) f
• Spanish: herida (es) f, llaga (es)
• Swahili: vimbe (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv) c, sår (sv) n
• Tagalog: sugat
• Telugu: గాయము (te) (gaayamu)
• Turkish: hasar (tr), yara (tr)
• Tuvan: балыг (balyg)
• Ukrainian: рана f (rána)
• Urdu: گھاو (ghāv)
• Vietnamese: vết thương (vi)
• Volapük: vun (vo)

something that offends a person’s feelings

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傷害 (zh), 伤害 (zh) (shānghài), 傷心 (zh), 伤心 (zh) (shāngxīn)

• Dutch: wonde (nl) f
• Finnish: loukkaus
• French: blessure (fr) f, offense (fr) f
• German: Verletzung (de) f
• Greek: τραύμα (el) n (trávma), πλήγμα (el) n (plígma), πλήγωμα (el) n (plígoma)
• Hungarian: sértés (hu)

• Indonesian: luka (id)
• Italian: offesa (it) f
• Japanese: 傷 (ja) (きず, kizu)
• Jèrriais: bliesseûthe f
• Norwegian: sår (no) n
• Portuguese: mágoa (pt) f
• Russian: рана (ru) f (rána), травма (ru) f (trávma)
• Scottish Gaelic: leòn m
• Swahili: vimbe (sw)
• Swedish: sår (sv) n

an injury to a person by which the skin is divided

• Danish: sår (da) n
• Dutch: verwonding (nl) f
• Finnish: haava (fi)
• French: blessure (fr) f, lésion (fr) f
• Greek: τραύμα (el) n (trávma)
• Icelandic: sár (is) n

• Italian: ferita (it) f
• Jèrriais: bliesseûthe f
• Norwegian: sår (no) n
• Scottish Gaelic: leòn m
• Swahili: vimbe (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ჭრილობა (čriloba)

• Interlingua: vulnere, lesion

Verb

wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)

1. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

   The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

2. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

   The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

Synonyms

• (injure): hurt, injure
• (hurt (feelings)): offend

Translations

hurt or injure

• Arabic: جَرَحَ (ar) (jaraHa), اصاب (isaaba)
• Catalan: ferir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊傷, 击伤 (zh) (jīshāng), 致傷, 致伤 (zhìshāng), 傷害 (zh), 伤害 (zh) (shānghài)

• Czech: zranit (cs), poranit
• Dutch: verwonden (nl), kwetsen (nl)
• Finnish: haavoittaa
• French: blesser (fr)
• Friulian: ferî
• Galician: vulnerar (gl), ferir (gl)
• German: verletzen (de), verwunden (de)
• Greek: πληγώνω (el) (pligóno), τραυματίζω (el) (travmatízo), λαβώνω (el) (lavóno)
• Hebrew: פגע (pagá)
• Icelandic: særa, meiða (is)
• Indonesian: melukai (id), mencederai (id)

• Italian: ferire (it)
• Japanese: 傷つける (きずつける, kizu-tsukeru), 怪我させる (けがさせる, kega-saseru)
• Macedonian: ранува (ránuva), повредува (povréduva)
• Norwegian: skade (no)
• Old English: wundian
• Polish: ranić (pl)
• Portuguese: ferir (pt), lesar (pt), machucar (pt), vulnerar
• Russian: ранить (ru) impf (ránit'), поранить (ru) pf (poránit')
• Sardinian: firiri
• Scottish Gaelic: leòn, ciùrr
• Spanish: herir (es), lesionar (es)
• Swahili: vimbe (sw)
• Swedish: skada (sv), såra (sv)
• Telugu: గాయపరచు (gaayaparacu)
• Volapük: vunön (vo)

hurt (someone's feelings)

• Catalan: ferir (ca)
• Czech: ranit
• Danish: såre
• Dutch: kwetsen (nl)
• Finnish: loukata (fi)
• French: blesser (fr), offenser (fr)
• German: verletzen (de)
• Greek: πληγώνω (el) (pligóno), τραυματίζω (el) (travmatízo)
• Icelandic: særa
• Indonesian: melukai (id)
• Italian: ferire (it), offendere (it)

• Japanese: 傷つける (きずつける, kizu-tsukeru)
• Macedonian: повредува (povréduva), навредува (navréduva)
• Norwegian: såre
• Polish: urazić
• Portuguese: magoar (pt)
• Scottish Gaelic: leòn, ciùrr
• Spanish: herir (es)
• Swahili: vimbe (sw)
• Swedish: såra (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ferir, vulnerar, leder

Etymology 2

See wind (Etymology 2)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /waʊnd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wæʊnd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Verb

wound

1. simple past tense and past participle of wind
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, The Fate of the Artemis^[2]:

     “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”