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1. wound
noun. ['ˈwaʊnd, ˈwuːnd'] an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).
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Rhymes with Wound
- lampooned
- impugned
- festooned
- gamunde
- ballooned
- swooned
- pruned
- marooned
- freund
- attuned
- tuned
How do you pronounce wound?
Pronounce wound as wund.
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Sentences with wound
1. Preposition or subordinating conjunction
A perpetual movement watch will usually stay wound for 48 hours when not being worn.
2. Noun, singular or mass
This hole or wound, once established, help the fungus spread throughout the bark tissue.
3. Verb, past participle
DNA is tightly wound in the chromosomes at that point, and transcription halts as a result.
4. Adjective
This happens fairly quickly, and mechanical watches must be wound daily.
Quotes about wound
1. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
- Rumi
2. I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
- Franz Kafka
3. you can take this mouththis wound you wantbut you can't kissand make itbetter.
- Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn
6. wound
noun. ['ˈwaʊnd, ˈwuːnd'] a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).