Wrap vs Wound - What's the difference?
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To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
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(figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
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(transitive, or, intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a pancake.
(entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
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An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
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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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As nouns the difference between wrap and wound
is that wrap is wrap (food) while wound is an injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.As a verb wound is
to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin or wound can be (wind).wrap
English
Verb
- A snake wraps itself around its prey.
- Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
- wise poets that wrap truth in tales
- To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "wrap")Synonyms
* enfoldAntonyms
* unwrapDerived terms
* wrap around and wrap-around * wrap around one's little finger * wrappable * wrapper * wrapping * wrap upNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----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