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Winded vs Wound - What's the difference?

winded | wound |

As verbs the difference between winded and wound

is that winded is past tense of wind while wound is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

As an adjective winded

is short of breath.

As a noun wound is

an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

winded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wind) (To cause a person to lose their breath)
    • The boxer was winded when his opponent hit his solar plexus.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • short of breath
    • She was winded from her long run.

    Translations

    (short of breath) (trans-mid) * Serbo-Croatian: (t) * Spanish: (t) (trans-bottom)

    Derived terms

    * long-winded * short-winded

    Anagrams

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    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