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1. An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
   - lesion
    
2. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
   - injury, combat injury
    
3. A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
   "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"
    
4. The act of inflicting a wound
   - wounding

1. Cause injuries or bodily harm to
   - injure
    
2. Cause (somebody) emotional pain or offence
   - hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite

1. Coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
   - wind up
    
2. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   - hoist, lift
    
3. Arrange or coil around
   - wrap, roll, twine
    
4. To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
   "the river winds through the hills";
   - weave, thread, meander, wander
    
5. Extend in curves and turns
   "The road winds around the lake";
   - twist, curve
    
6. Form into a wreath
   - wreathe

Derived forms: wounds, wounded, wounding

Type of: arouse, be, bring up, damage, displace, distress, elevate, elicit, enkindle [literary], enlace, entwine, evoke, fasten, fire, get up, go, harm, hurt, injury, interlace, intertwine, interwind, intwine [archaic], kindle, lace, lift, locomote, loss, move, personnel casualty, provoke, raise, scathe [archaic], suffering, tighten, trauma, travel, twine

Encyclopedia: Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing