## Meanings
1. An injury to the body, such as a cut, where the skin is broken.
2. To injure someone by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
3. Emotional pain or damage to someone's feelings or pride.
4. To hurt someone's feelings.
5. Simple past and past participle of wind (to turn or coil).

## Examples
- The nurse cleaned and bandaged the wound.
- The police officer wounded the suspect during the struggle.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- The actor's pride was wounded when the role went to his rival.
- She wound the scarf tightly around her neck.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: wund
- Root: *wundō
- Root: wunden
- Root: wundian
- Root: *wundōną

## Etymology
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.

## AI Etymology
Wound: Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną. Important historical forms include Middle English wund, Old English wund, Proto-Germanic *wundō, Middle English wunden, Old English wundian, and Proto-Germanic *wundōną. In present-day use, it can mean a injury to the body, such as a cut, where the skin is broken, or to injure someone by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine
- The Human Body

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