wounds 1 of 2

noun

plural of wound
as in injuries

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wounds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wound
1
as in damages
to cause bodily damage to an arrow had wounded the animal, but the vet was able to save it

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2
as in insults
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in that callous comment really wounded me

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Recent Examples of wounds
Noun
Police said the 62-year-old man received numerous stab wounds to the head and hands, as well as a stab wound to the lower abdomen. — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
Penal Code 597 states that any person who who maliciously and intentionally maims, mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal is guilty of a crime. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026 The kitchen wounds him, heals him, and becomes his crucible of faith. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 July 2026 The Atlanta Games are later marred by the Centennial Olympic Park bombing that kills Alice Hawthorne, wounds 111 others. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 Chops, gouges, wounds it like the shadow grooves on the sidewalks—the sun is setting earlier. — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026 Imperfect fleshly reality occupies the stage, the region where bones crack and wounds suppurate, schlumpy humans fall for each other, and jealousy roams murderously free. — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026 What once killed campaigns now barely wounds them. — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025 No policy wounds Tibetan dignity more profoundly than attempts to co-opt its spiritual and institutional heart. — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025 Wonder is what wounds us, enters us. — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wounds
  1. injuries
  2. damages
  3. insults
  4. abrasions
  5. injures
  6. offends
  7. hurts
  8. outrages
Noun
  • Pittsburgh’s late arrival in Paris and injuries elsewhere are concerns, but the rushing and defensive advantages outweigh them at this number.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Officers found an unconscious adult man who was transported to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of injuries
Verb
  • This creates stress on the display that ultimately damages the matrix.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Potential money damages If Hurts could prove the Eagles erred, the next question is whether the error caused, or will cause, Hurts a financial loss.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of damages
Verb
  • That's what happens when your star insults moviegoers or goes off on tangents about the characters's sexuality.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • Ohm quickly insults nearly every employee at this small hotel within moments of meeting them, except for the young, pretty bartender, Fiona (Florence Ordesh).
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of insults
Noun
  • Left alone, dry eye can create tiny abrasions on the cornea, raise infection risk and in rare cases cause scarring that permanently affects vision.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Johns Hopkins warns that untreated dry eye can cause corneal abrasions, infection or scarring that permanently affects vision.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of abrasions
Verb
  • The agency defines an attack as an incident where a bear injures or kills a person.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2026
  • This pest injures the host plant by using its piercing-sucking mouthparts to feed on plant sap.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of injures
Verb
  • Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris returning from NFL training camps to college offends my sensibilities.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But something about this circus just offends me on a spiritual level.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of offends
Verb
  • While some stress factors are uncontrollable, workplace stress directly hurts productivity.
    — Jon Lowe, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Though Wagner argues the act actually hurts struggling families.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of hurts
Verb
  • What outrages Marylanders is that this diabolical plan excludes the Preakness, devaluing it and implying the Triple Crown is irrelevant, if not dead.
    — Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2026
  • This baffles and outrages Angela, a protective mom who, with other parents, pushes back against Gabor using her math classroom as a forum for introducing the outside world’s worst actions.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of outrages

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“Wounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wounds. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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