Definition: 1. Cause injuries or bodily harm to. 2. Any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision. 3. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. 4. A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).
Use 'wound' in a sentence:
1. Jill washed and stitched the wound.
2. The wound is healing nicely and the patient is healthy.
3. He had six stitches in a head wound.
4. The bruising was not contiguous to the wound.
5. It took a long time for the wounds to heal.
6. I did not want to wound him, but to restrict myself to defence, to parry his attacks.
7. The wound opened up and started bleeding.
8. The wound is festering, and gangrene has set in.
9. "They'd said the wound was only about this big," and he showed me with his fingers.
10. The wound still pained him occasionally.
11. His wife tilted his head to the side and inspected the wound.
12. The doctor probed the wound for signs of infection.
13. She died of a single stab wound to the heart.
14. He explored the wound with his finger, trying to establish its extent.
15. The boy was treated for a minor head wound.
16. She began cleaning the wound with a piece of cloth.
17. Blood began to coagulate around the edges of the wound.
18. The wound healed slowly.
19. How deep is the wound?
20. The wound from the dog bite had become infected.
21. Blood oozed out of the wound.
22. The wound was still spouting blood.
23. The wound was oozing blood.
24. Blood was pumping out of his wound.
25. Blood was still oozing from the wound.
26. The nurse cleaned the wound.
27. He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron.
28. The other injured man had a superficial stomach wound.
29. My little granddaughter caught her heel in the spokes of her bicycle – it was a very nasty wound.
30. She tried to stop the flow of blood from the wound.
31. Pressure applied to the wound will stop the bleeding.
32. She displayed her wound to the twelve gentlemen of the jury.
33. 50 people were seriously wounded in the attack.
