Wound Definition
- persons wounded, esp. in warfare
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Wound
- the wounded
Origin of Wound
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Noun from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōnÄ…. Indo-European cognates include Albanian unë (“piece of a broken pot, splinter").
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Middle English from Old English wund wen-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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See wind (Etymology 2)
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