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Wound vs Cuts - What's the difference?

wound | cuts |

As nouns the difference between wound and cuts

is that wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body while cuts is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between wound and cuts

is that wound is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin while cuts is third-person singular of cut.

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

    cuts

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Corporal punishment at school.
  • * 1995 , Bill Marsh, Ape'', ''Old Yanconian Daze , page 110,
    • ‘I?ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
    Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts .
  • * 2001 , Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town , page 55,
    • He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn?t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
  • * 2008 , Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate , page 250,
    • My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cut)

    • Anagrams

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