wound

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An injury, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
2. n. An injury to the feelings.
3. v. To inflict wounds or a wound on.
4. v. To inflict wounds or a wound: harsh criticism that wounds.
5. v. Past tense and past participle of wind².
6. v. Music A past tense and a past participle of wind³.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In surgery, a solution of continuity of any of the tissues of the body, involving also the skin or mucous membrane of the part, caused by some external agent, and not the result of disease.
2. n. In medical jurisprudence, any lesion of the body resulting from external violence, whether accompanied or not by rupture of the skin or mucous membrane—thus differing from the meaning of the word when used in surgery. Great difference of opinion, however, appears in the way in which the word is interpreted when occurring in criminal statutes. Some authorities have held that it necessarily implies the use of a hard or solid instrument other than the hand or fist; others, that it necessarily implies the breaking of the skin beyond the cuticle or outer membrane.
3. n. A breach or hurt of the bark and wood of a tree, or of the bark and substance of other plants.
4. n. Figuratively, injury; hurt; harm: as, a wound given to credit or reputation, feelings, etc.: often specifically applied in literature to the pangs of love.
5. n. Plague.
6. n. In heraldry, a roundel purpure.
7. To hurt by violence; cut, slash, or lacerate; injure; damage: as, to wound the head or the arm; to wound a tree.
8. Figuratively, to cause injury or harm to; specifically, of persons, to hurt the feelings of; pain.
9. To inflict hurt or injury, either physically or morally.
10. Preterit and past participle of wind.

Wiktionary

1. n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
2. n. figuratively A hurt to a person's feelings.
3. n. criminal law An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
4. v. transitive To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
5. v. transitive To hurt (a person's feelings).
6. v. Simple past tense and past participle of wind.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. & p. p. of wind to twist, and wind to sound by blowing.
2. n. 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.
3. n. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
4. n. (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.
5. v. To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
6. v. To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
2. n. the act of inflicting a wound
3. v. hurt the feelings of
4. n. an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
5. n. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
6. adj. put in a coil
7. v. cause injuries or bodily harm to