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wound

/woond; Older Use and Literary wound/US // wund; Older Use and Literary waʊnd //UK // (wuːnd) //

伤口,外伤,创伤,伤

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
    • : a similar injury to the tissue of a plant.
    • : an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to inflict a wound.

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Examples

  • She was found with several wounds on her body and her face was disfigured.

  • “They had to be taken to the hospital that night for their wounds to be stitched, but thankfully no one lost their life,” he said.

  • I wound up working for him for a few summers when we were in our early 20s.

  • To be sure, a majority of the 1,126 workers we looked at wound up in software and internet-focused industries, which include unsurprising names like Apple, Alphabet, and IBM.

  • Repair cells, for example, send out filopodia to detect chemical cues to navigate to wound sites.

  • Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

  • But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

  • As the interview wound down, Bentivolio reflected on what may have motivated him to dress as Santa.

  • But others say a still-unidentified man likely fired the round that caused a lethal head wound.

  • The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

  • Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

  • It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

  • The Taube has been bothering us again, but wound up its manœuvres very decently by killing some fish for our dinner.

  • After this it wound along on ridges and in ravines till it reached the heart of a great pine forest, where stood a saw-mill.