WOUND

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

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. Chaucer. Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen. Shak.

Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

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.

To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like. The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3.

To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to. When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 1 Cor. viii. 12.