Wound vs Detriment - What's the difference?
wound | detriment |
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
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* Shakespeare
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(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, etc.
An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
To hurt (a person's feelings).
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(UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
As nouns the difference between wound and detriment
is that wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body while detriment is harm, hurt, damage.As a verb wound
is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.wound
English
Etymology 1
Noun from (etyl) wund, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 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.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
Synonyms
* (injury) injury, lesion * (sense, something that offends a person's feelings) slight, slur, insult * See alsoDerived terms
* dirty wound * entry wound * exit wound * flesh wound * rub salt in the wound * suck one's wounds * time heals all woundsVerb
(en verb)- The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
- The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
Synonyms
* (injure) hurt, injure * offendEtymology 2
See (Etymology 2)Verb
(head)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
detriment
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”}}
