noun
- An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin.
- synonyms: lesion
- A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.
- synonyms: injury, combat injury
- 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
- The act of inflicting a wound.
- synonyms: wounding
verb
- To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course.
- usage: "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- Extend in curves and turns.
- usage: "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
- Arrange or or coil around.
- usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
- Catch the scent of; get wind of.
- usage: "The dog nosed out the drugs"
- Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem.
- usage: "wind your watch"
- Form into a wreath.
- Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
- usage: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- Cause injuries or bodily harm to.
- synonyms: injure
- Hurt the feelings of.
- usage: "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
adjective
- Put in a coil. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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