WOUND
What does "WOUND" mean?
An injury to the body in which the skin or other tissue is cut, torn, or broken.
Meanings
- A bodily injury caused by a cut, blow, or other impact that breaks the skin. The medic cleaned the wound before binding it.
- An injury to a person's feelings, reputation, or peace of mind. The insult left a wound that years did not close. figurative
- To inflict an injury, physical or emotional, upon someone. His careless words wounded her more deeply than he knew.
- Past tense and past participle of 'wind' (to turn, twist, or coil), pronounced differently. She wound the clock and set it on the mantel.
Did you know?
- WOUND is two words wearing the same spelling: the injury (rhymes with 'spooned') from Old English 'wund', and the past of 'wind' (rhymes with 'found') from 'windan' - they share five letters and zero history.
Word origin
The injury sense is from Old English 'wund' (a hurt, sore); the unrelated 'wound' meaning 'turned' is the past tense of 'wind', from Old English 'windan' (to twist).
Remember it
The hurt WOUND sounds like 'wooned'; the wound-up clock sounds like 'found' - same letters, two lives.
A little poem
One spelling, two roads-
the cut that aches, the spring coiled,
both held in five marks.
haiku
Wordplay
- I wound a bandage around the wound - and somehow the same word both opened and closed it.
What it teaches
A wound and a thing wound up share a shape: both are tension held in the body, waiting to be released.
Quick facts
What does WOUND mean?
An injury to the body in which the skin or other tissue is cut, torn, or broken.
Is WOUND a valid word?
Yes — WOUND is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WOUND?
WOUND has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does WOUND come from?
The injury sense is from Old English 'wund' (a hurt, sore); the unrelated 'wound' meaning 'turned' is the past tense of 'wind', from Old English 'windan' (to twist).
What can WOUND teach us?
A wound and a thing wound up share a shape: both are tension held in the body, waiting to be released.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.