2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wound \Wound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wounded}; p. pr & vb n.
{Wounding}.] [AS. wundian [root]140. See {Wound}, n.]
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. --1 Cor.
viii. 12.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wounding
adj : causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a
stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic
than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of
disloyalty" [syn: {stabbing}, {traumatic}]
n : the act of inflicting a wound [syn: {wound}]
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