Wound Synonyms, Wound Antonyms

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Main Entry:	wind [n. wind, Literary wahynd; v. wind] Show IPA
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	bend, turn
Synonyms:	coil, convolute, corkscrew, cover, crook, curl, curve, deviate, distort, encircle, enclose, entwine, envelop, fold, furl, loop, meander, ramble, reel, roll, screw, slither, snake, spiral, swerve, twine, twist, weave, wrap, wreathe, wriggle, zigzag
Notes:	wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically
Antonyms:	straighten

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Main Entry:	wound
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cause bodily damage
Synonyms:	bruise, carve, clip, contuse, cut, damage, ding, gash, harm, hit, hurt, injure, irritate, lacerate, nick, open up, ouch, pierce, rough up, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stick, total*
Antonyms:	aid, cure, heal, help

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	wound
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cause mental hurt
Synonyms:	bother, cut to the quick, distress, disturb, do in, dump on, get, grieve, hurt, hurt one's feelings, mortify, offend, outrage, pain, put down, shake up, sting, traumatize, trouble, upset
Antonyms:	appease, help

* = informal/non-formal usage
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Example Sentences

The individual ego will close the wound in a matter of weeks.

One candidate told us that the topic of her first book would depend on which job she wound up getting.

The ostensible cause of his departure could not have been better calculated to wound his ex-boss.

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The individual ego will close the wound in a matter of weeks.

One candidate told us that the topic of her first book would depend on which job she wound up getting.

The ostensible cause of his departure could not have been better calculated to wound his ex-boss.

On the basis of the paper, he sees no convincing evidence of a healed head wound.

So the start is with material that would likely have wound up in a landfill.

As the war wound down, he continued to chafe behind the lines.

It usually peels off pretty easily leaving a minimal wound on the plant.

Wound dressings made of ground shellfish exoskeletons save lives by stopping extreme bleeding in emergency situations.

Infection begins when the spores enter the body through an injury or wound.

Then, using a syringe or a pneumatic spray, the surgeon squirts the cells on to the wound.

Some of these cancer cells are then implanted into the bite wound.

But the swelling remained and the wound continued to ooze pus.

With luck, future discoveries will help paleontologists better understand how hadrosaurs wound up with such fancy skulls.

Bruised or cut mammalian tissue reacts by producing scar tissue: tough, fibrous cells that quickly seal off an open wound.

But the auction price of the cash settlement may not represent the eventual recovery rate after the company has been wound up.

Lowered immunity may mean that a calf doesn't recover from a wound or minor infection.

After three months of this, the wound still had not healed.

When a wound is healing, cell division must be sped up.

Animation and video showing a printer for burn wounds scanning the wound, then layering new cells over the wound.

They can strike us, they can wound us, they can kill us.

Female tusks, when they do appear, tend to be shorter and cleaner with more tightly wound spiral patterns.

Each selenium cell will have to wound personally by the inventor, who never intrusts this work to anybody else.

Deborah focused the surgeon's attention on her head wound and secretly extracted the bullet or bullets in her thigh by herself.

Such a vehicle would use a small gasoline engine to drive a generator to keep the car going when the battery wound down.

Inflation was vanquished, and the loss-making state-owned mining company was wound up.

The saliva has a chemical that keeps the wound from closing.

The tiny structures lay in a blood vessel channel that wound through the pale yellow hard tissue.

But instead of revealing any secrets of wound healing, the mice had an inability to grow hair in their first few weeks of life.

However, its programme has been wound down and the government has put only modest provision in its place.

The maggots eat dead tissue around the wound that can prevent healing and cause infection.

He majored in electrical engineering, however, and then wound up choosing a biomechanical engineering specialty within that.

To save injured victims, you tap the appropriate tool and apply it to the wound.

The low-level but frequent release of this chemical ensures regular anti-bacterial washes of the wound.

If you are stung, wash the wound with vinegar or rubbing alcohol.

When a spine jabs a potential predator, the membrane surrounding the venom gland cells tears, releasing venom into the wound.

Each ring, about a yard in diameter, contain copper wires wound into an electromagnet.

The games reportedly maim and wound thousands of horses each year.

Wash the wound thoroughly, treat the wound with a topical anti-bacterial medicine and/or see a doctor.

There the silkworms produce a protein filament tightly wound into cocoons.

Smart bandages, with built-in sensors that report if a wound is healing or has become infected, could be on the horizon.

They wound south through the archipelago by ski and kayak.

The dead flesh around the wound is eaten, while the animal itself remains relatively healthy.

Ahmed soon wound up shining shoes alongside other poor, going-nowhere boys in the capital.

Exposing the wound to air slows healing because it creates a dry environment that promotes cell death.

Deep sutures were used to bring the sides of the five-centimeter wound together.

Giffords, who doctors said continued to make progress after receiving a bullet wound to the head.

Nitrox mix can be used as a fair standin for hyperbaric oxygen to help wound healing and treat incipient or developed gangrene.

And he had a mortal wound to his right lower leg-a gunshot wound.

The wound was bandaged and the patient then showed symptoms of the disease before recovering, usually without scars.

It wound up being a good decision, although not for the feint of commitment.

The fund could be wound up if a buyer is not found.

The wound turns into a multi-color lesion that can last for up to three weeks.

Manuka honey interferes with bacteria infecting a wound by keeping the microbes from attaching to tissue, and even by making.

Two heavy braids were wound around her head into a crown.

One skull stood out-marked with what appeared to be the entrance wound from a musket ball.

The neurotic kids were wound up and aggressive after.

Each sought to wound the other's pride, but their sweet fluting pierced only the evening silence.

They knew that diabetes could make a patient's breath smell sweet and that a wound emitting a.

Otherwise, the bird's sharp-edged bill may leave a minor flesh wound on your hand or arm.

The whole thing is held together by the wound headphone cord.

But the wound was so slight that the roebuck, next morning, did not feel it any more.

The boat sank, and they wound up without food in a little lifeboat.

The author singles out income inequality as a psychic wound uniquely worthy of state intervention.

Silverstein also showed a three-dimensional skull with a large wound on the side of the head.

Google wouldn't want it wound down because they already have the people who can and want to use their service.

Most stimulus measures around the world are either being wound down or removed.

The stab wound severed his spine and left him paralyzed and on a respirator.

Over time their holdings of securities will probably be wound down.

One gladiator had a distinctive double puncture wound to the front of his skull.

Remember that irradiation never makes anything radioactiveunless the food is wound thru a neutron flux.

Users wound them up, and a needle hit the cylinder's recorded.

If you wind back the odometres on cars selling them as newer cars when you know that they've been wound back.

When it bites-whether rat or human-it spits some bacteria out into the bite wound.

Now let's say you get a wound on your back, or an itch, or a bug wandering up there.

There is only one woman with a technically demanding injury-a gunshot wound to the stomach.

There a veterinarian noticed a puncture wound from a stick and amputated part of the third toe on her left forefoot.

Saini said the technology could some day be adapted to create a smart bandage that detects if a wound has become infected.

The greater the accuracy of modern weapons, the louder the outcry when they nonetheless kill or wound civilians.

Scientists believe that during those periods dust from deserts wound up in the oceans.

In fact, it serves to rub salt into a deeply gashed wound that has never known healing or.

He had a fractured, right, front leg and a bite wound on his right hip.

The barb is covered with a sheath of toxin that is injected into a wound.

It turned out to be a moot point, though, as no teams wound up tied after the final round.

Slowly the procession wound into the realm of perpetual night.

The train moved even more slowly as it wound around to climb the steep track.

Just as the timber war wound down, the tanker war began.

Wound it, and it will swim away and possibly die later-though many narwhals apparently survive.

Close examination of his hand revealed a partially healed injury, suggestive of a defensive wound from an earlier fight.

It is a president's responsibility to salve a national wound.

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Concept Thesaurus

Concept:	[Air in motion] Wind.
Category:	2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion
Synonyms:	-nouns . wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum. -verbs blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up. -adjectives blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary. -phrases "lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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Main Entry:	afflict
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cause or become hurt
Synonyms:	agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound
Notes:	afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with'
Antonyms:	aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of

Main Entry:	bend
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	form or cause a curve
Synonyms:	angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag
Antonyms:	straighten

Main Entry:	bite
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	injury from gripping, tearing
Synonyms:	chaw, chomp, gob, itch, laceration, nip, pain, pinch, prick, smarting, sting, tooth marks, wound

Main Entry:	bite
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	grip or tear with teeth
Synonyms:	champ, chaw, chaw on, chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, take a chunk out of, taste, tooth, wound

Main Entry:	bring down
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	reduce or hurt
Synonyms:	KO, abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, knock down, lay low, level, lower, mow down, murder, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, shoot down, slay, throw down, tumble, undermine, upset, wound*
Antonyms:	aid, encourage, help, raise

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