Usually means: Injury to body; breaks skin.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wound: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wound: Merriam-Webster
  3. wound, wound, wound, wound, wound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wound, wound, wound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wound: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wound: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wound, wound: Wordnik
  8. wound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wound: Wiktionary
  10. wound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wound: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wound: Dictionary.com
  14. wound (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Wound (disambiguation), Wound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wound: Rhymezone
  20. Wound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Wound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. wound: FreeDictionary.org
  24. wound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wound: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. wound: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. wound: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Wound: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. wound: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. wound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wound: Idioms
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wound (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. wound: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. wound: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wound)

noun:  An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
noun:  (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
noun:  (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
verb:  (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
verb:  (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

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