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Definition of Wound
| imp. & p. | 1. | imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing. | | n. | 1. | | | 1. | A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like. | | 2. | Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc. | | 3. | (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity. | | v. t. | 1. | | | 1. | To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. | | 2. | To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. |
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