Wound

  • 41wound-up — adjective brought to a state of great tension all wound up for a fight Syn: aroused, tense …

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  • 42wound — [OE] Wound is a widespread Germanic word, with relatives in German wunde, Dutch wond, and Icelandic und (Danish vunde is a reborrowing from Low German). Its ultimate origins are uncertain, but it has been speculated that it may go back to an Indo …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 43wound —  , scar  The two are not as interchangeable as writers sometimes casually make them. A scar is what remains after a wound heals. Thus it is always wrong, or at least stretching matters, to talk about a scar healing, including in figurative senses …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 44wound up — [[t]wa͟ʊnd ʌ̱p[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ If someone is wound up, they are very tense and nervous or angry …

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  • 45wound up — excited, pumped    Before Nadia sings, she gets all wound up. She can t relax …

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  • 46wound — wound1 [wu:nd] noun 1》 an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact. 2》 an injury to a person s feelings or reputation. verb inflict a wound on. Derivatives wounding noun & adjective woundingly adverb woundless adjective …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 47wound up — adjective (not before noun) anxious, worried, or excited: I was too wound up to sleep …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 48wound — 1. noun 1) a chest wound Syn: injury, lesion, cut, gash, laceration, tear, slash; graze, scratch, abrasion; bruise, contusion; Medicine trauma 2) the wounds inflicted by the media Syn …

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  • 49wound — 1. noun 1) a chest wound Syn: injury, cut, gash, laceration, graze, scratch, abrasion, puncture, lesion; Medicine trauma 2) the wounds inflicted by the media Syn: insult …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 50wound up — UK [ˌwaʊnd ˈʌp] / US adjective informal nervous and worried I was too wound up to relax …

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