1. spin; twist; bend; wrap around; be wrapped around; be bent; change direction. injury; lesion; offense. injure; offend. wound\wound\ , imp. & p. p. of wind to twist, and wind to sound by blowing.wound \wound\ (?; 277), n. [oe. wounde, wunde, as. wund; akin to ofries. wunde, os. wunda, d. wonde, ohg. wunta, g. wunde, icel. und, and to as., os., & g. wund sore, wounded, ohg. wunt, goth. wunds, and perhaps also to goth. winnan to suffer, e. win. ?140. cf. zounds.].
2. 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.
3. fig.: an injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
4. (criminal law) 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.note: walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a "capricious novelty." it is certainly opposed to an important principle of our language, namely, that the old english long sound written ou, and pronounced like french ou or modern english oo, has regularly changed, when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually written with the same letters ou in modern english, as in ground, hound, round, sound. the use of ou in old english to represent the sound of modern english oo was borrowed from the french, and replaced the older and anglo-saxon spelling with u. it makes no difference whether the word was taken from the french or not, provided it is old enough in english to have suffered this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but words taken from the french at a later time, or influenced by french, may have the french sound.wound gall (zo?l.), an elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish brown weevil (ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larv? inhabit the galls.wound \wound\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. wounding.] [as. wundian. ?140. see:
wound, n.].
5. 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. xxxi.
6. 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. viii. 12.wound put in a coil n.
7. any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision [syn: lesion].
8. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat [syn: injury, combat injury].
9. the act of inflicting a wound [syn: wounding] v 1: cause injuries or bodily harm to [syn: injure] 2: hurt the feelings of; "she hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "this remark really bruised me ego" [syn: hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite].
10. imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
11. 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.
12. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
13. 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.
14. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
15. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. the act of inflicting a wound a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat a figurative injury ; "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 any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision put in a coil.
16. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
17. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
18. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
19. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
20. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
21. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
22. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
23. To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
24. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
25. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
26. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
27. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
28. Power of respiration; breath.
29. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
30. Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
31. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
32. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation.
33. It occurs immediately after shearing.
34. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
35. The dotterel.
36. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
37. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
38. To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
39. To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
40. To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
41. The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him" empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change" air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" coil the spring of by turning a stem; "wind your watch" wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake".
42. Past tense and past participle of wind. A past tense and a past participle of wind. the past tense and past participle of wind. or trauma Break in any body tissue due to external action (including surgery). It may be closed (blunt trauma) or open (penetrating trauma). Blood vessels, nerves, muscles, bones, joints, and internal organs may be damaged. A closed wound can be caused by impact, twisting, bending, or deceleration (as in a car crash). It can range from a minor bruise or sprain to a skull fracture with brain damage or a spinal-cord injury with paralysis. In an open wound, foreign matter such as bacteria, dirt, and clothing fragments entering through broken skin or mucous membrane may result in infection. Other factors affecting severity include depth, surface area, degree of tearing, and structures damaged. Minor wounds need only first aid. For others, after examination and perhaps diagnostic imaging and exploratory surgery, treatment may include fluid replacement or drainage, sterilization and antibiotics, tetanus antitoxin, and repair of damaged structures. A closed wound may need to be opened or an open one sutured closed. See also burn, coagulation, crush injury, dislocation, scar.
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