wound
/ˈwund/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
verb
simple past and past participle of wind
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen."
- "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."
- "It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult."
- "The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued."
- "The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival."
Etymology
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-West Germanic *wundu, from Proto-Germanic *wundō (“wound”), from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to strive, toil, win”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wuunde (“wound”), Cimbrian bunta (“wound”), Dutch wond, wonde (“wound”), German Wunde (“wonde”), Luxembourgish Wonn (“wound”), Yiddish וווּנד (vund, “wound”), Icelandic und (“wound”), Gothic *𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*wunda, “wound”) (whence 𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍆𐌽𐌹 (wundufni, “disease, plague”)); also Old Armenian վանդեմ (vandem, “to destroy; to catch a disease”). Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną (“to wound”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian buntan (“to wound”), Dutch wonden (“to wound”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (gawundōn, “to wound”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwund/
- British English: /ˈwuːnd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
wounds (plural)
wounde (alternative, obsolete)
wounds (present, singular)
wounding (participle, present)
wounded (participle, past)
wounded (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
wounded (first person, past)
woundest (archaic, present)
wounded (past, second person)
woundedst (archaic, past)