Open Dictionary
mouse here to listen, click to choose/add more
Location: USA
Source: Learn That Word
Profile URL: www.learnthat.org

Are you a native English speaker? How do you pronounce this word?

Thank you for contributing!
upload mp3 file or record now it's easy, promised!

{%type%} Definitions

WordNet 3.0Copyright Princeton University
{%wordnet%}
Definitions.net
{%definitions_com%}

Videos

Short "hint"

A cut, breach, or rupture in the skin; To cause a cut or injury to the body. Also: To wrap something around a center or another object once or repeatedly.

Watch out! You may see this word with another pronunciation and its meaning is then different.
Used as a noun, listen here, it means: A cut, breach, or rupture in the skin; To cause a cut or injury to the body. Also: To wrap something around a center or another object once or repeatedly. Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To wrap something around a center or other object one or more times.

edit
Usage examples (34)
  • The nurse cleaned the wound on his leg.
  • 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
...click for more
Tutoring comment
  • ''wound" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
add more
The Open Dictionary of English is a collaborative project, based on Open Source materials, LearnThat resources, and partner APIs.
We give special thanks to our LearnThat volunteers, as well as Princeton University and Wiktionary for their Open Source word data. We're also grateful for the support given by Google, Wordnik.com, Dictionary.com, Stands4.com and YouTube, OEDILF.com, Kylescholz.com, Best-Practice.com, Forvo.com, as well as the generous Creative Commons community.