Wound /(?)/

Wound

imp. & p. p.
  1. imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

Wound

n.
  1. 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.
    Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
  2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
  3. An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. (Criminal Law)

Phrases & Compounds
Wound gall
an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.

Wound

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding

  1. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
    The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
    — 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.
  2. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
    When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.