an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
[ Syn: lesion ]
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
[ Syn: 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
[ Syn: wounding ]
wound (n.)
put in a coil