wound

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Allow it to remain for a week or ten days if the wound is aseptic or if the dressing does not become loose or misplaced or become drenched with secretions from the wound, or if pain, fever, or loss of appetite does not develop.

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  1. noun An injury, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
  2. noun An injury to the feelings.
  3. transitive verb To inflict wounds or a wound on.

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  • The inmate told us the wound was a warning from a Mexican gang called the Aztecas that found out he was dealing drugs without permission in El Paso. —  Click2Houston.com - Local News
  • Relatives also said the wound is affecting the sight in her left eye. —  Stabroek News
  • Allow it to remain for a week or ten days if the wound is aseptic or if the dressing does not become loose or misplaced or become drenched with secretions from the wound, or if pain, fever, or loss of appetite does not develop. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • At the sight of the blood,--which flowed freely, for the wound was an ugly one--the lad set up a howl of pain and alarm, which greatly startled his stoical relatives. —  On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians
  • They hit a man I knew once with a tiny bit of an arrow thing, only a wood point as broke off in the wound--wound, it weren't worth calling a wound, but the little top was poisoned, and before night he was a dead man From the poison That's it, sir. —  Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

injury ·  bruise ·  scar ·  disease ·  illness ·  pain ·  burn ·  wind ·  blow ·  gash ·  infection ·  trauma

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wound:   winded ·  wind ·  winds ·  Wind ·  winding ·  wounds ·  wounding ·  wounded
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English wund; see wen-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wound, wounde, wund, wunde, wonde, from Anglo-Saxon wund = Old Saxon wunda, wunde = OFries. wunde, unde = Dutch wond, wonde = Old High German wunta, Middle High German G. wunde, a wound, = Icelandic und (for *vund) = Danish vunde, a wound; from an adjective, Middle English wund, from Anglo-Saxon wund = Dutch ge-wond = Old High German wunt, German wund = Gothic (Moesogothic) wunds, wounded; possibly orig. past participle (in -d) of the verb which appears in Anglo-Saxon winnan (past participle wunnen), strive, fight, suffer: see win, v. The historical pron. is wound, parallel to that of ground, found, sound, bound, etc.
  2. from Middle English wounden, woundien, wunden, wundien, wondien, from Anglo-Saxon wundian = Old High German wuntōn, Middle High German wunden, German verwunden, wound; from the noun.
 

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