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Bleed vs Wound - What's the difference?

bleed | wound |

As verbs the difference between bleed and wound

is that bleed is (of an animal) to lose blood through an injured blood vessel while wound is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin or wound can be (wind).

As nouns the difference between bleed and wound

is that bleed is an incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia while wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

bleed

English

Verb

  • (of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
  • :If her nose bleeds try to use ice.
  • To let or draw blood from an animal.
  • To take large amounts of money from.
  • To steadily lose (something vital).
  • :The company was bleeding talent.
  • (of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
  • To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
  • (obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.
  • *:
  • *:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete
  • (copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
  • :He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
  • To lose sap, gum, or juice.
  • :A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
  • To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
  • *Alexander Pope
  • *:For me the balm shall bleed .
  • (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
  • :Labialization bleeds palatalization.

    • Derived terms

    * bleed dry * bleeder * bleeding heart * bleed out * bleed to death * bleed white

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
  • A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
  • The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

    • References

    * * English copulative verbs English ergative verbs English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words

    wound

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun from (etyl) wund, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
  • * 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
    • The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
  • * 1883:
    • I went below, and did what I could for my wound ; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
  • (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, etc.
    • It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
  • An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
    • Synonyms
    * (injury) injury, lesion * (sense, something that offends a person's feelings) slight, slur, insult * See also
    Derived terms
    * dirty wound * entry wound * exit wound * flesh wound * rub salt in the wound * suck one's wounds * time heals all wounds

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
    • The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
  • To hurt (a person's feelings).
    • The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
    Synonyms
    * (injure) hurt, injure * offend

    Etymology 2

    See (Etymology 2)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wind)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}} English heteronyms English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms