Antonyms for wound

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : woond; Older Use and Literary wound

Phonetic Transcription : wund; Older Use and Literary waʊnd

Definition of wound

Origin : Old English wund "hurt, injury," from Proto-Germanic *wundaz (cf. Old Saxon wunda, Old Norse und, Old Frisian wunde, Old High German wunta, German wunde "wound"), perhaps from PIE root *wen- "to beat, wound."

noun injury
verb cause bodily damage
verb cause mental hurt

Example sentences :

In spite of the wound he seized the musket and forcibly wrested it from our hero.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

All you had to do when you got it inside a man was to turn it round a bit, and the wound gaped and tore.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

How so, I asked him, when that cannot wound without the application?
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

And in the painful cleaning of the wound he did not murmur once.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

The bullets of Allister and Clune might have gone home— they were intended to kill, not to wound.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

She tried to smile, but what came was the smile of a wound rather than a mouth.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

He spoke with the sureness of a man of wealth, confident that money will salve any wound.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

She felt no alarm lest she wound the sensibilities of the girl.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

In all her short life she had never willfully inflicted a wound.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I pull it off and put it back and it galls my finger, as if it rubbed a wound.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

Synonyms for wound

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