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Wound vs Miracle - What's the difference?

wound | miracle |

As nouns the difference between wound and miracle

is that wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body while miracle is a wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.

As a verb wound

is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin or wound can be (wind).

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

    miracle

    English

    (wikipedia miracle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wonderful event occurring in the physical world attributed to supernatural powers.
    • Many religious beliefs are based on miracles .
    An example of a miracle associated with Muhammad is the splitting of the moon.
  • A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
  • * 1966 November 25, "A Great Document Made by Wisdom and Luck", in Life , volume 61, number 22, page 13:
    • Secondly, it was a miracle that a document hammered out with such difficulty, satisfying very few of its authors completely and satisfying some of them very little, would turn out to be the most successful political invention in history.
  • * 1993 , Hatch N. Gardner and Frank H. Winter, P-51 Mustang (Turner Publishing Company), page 78:
    • It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out.
  • * 2003 , Eric Lionel Jones, The European miracle: environments, economies, and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia (Cambridge University Press), page 218:
    • Seen in this light it was a miracle of economic history that Europe was able to undertake so much higher a proportion of its expansion overseas, and secure a massive injection of resources and big markets without a commensurate growth in her numbers.
  • An awesome and exceptional example of something
  • * 1847 , Honoré de Balzac, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , page 323:
    • The home of our kings, over which you tread as you pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture.
  • * 2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning), page 670:
    • It was a miracle' of engineering that made possible, with the cheap electricity the dam generated, another kind of ' miracle : the bizarre, superilluminated city of Las Vegas, Nevada.

    Derived terms

    * miraculous * miraculousness * miraculously

    Anagrams

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