wound (n.)
- abrasion
- abscess
- abuse
- ache
- aching
- affront
- ail
- anguish
- bark
- bite
- blain
- bleb
- blemish
- blight
- blister
- blow
- boil
- break
- bruise
- bubo
- bulla
- bunion
- burn
- canker
- carbuncle
- chafe
- chancre
- chancroid
- check
- chilblain
- chip
- claw
- concussion
- crack
- crackle
- cramp
- craze
- curse
- cut
- damage
- defile
- disadvantage
- distress
- dolor
- doom
- eschar
- felon
- fester
- festering
- fistula
- fracture
- fray
- frazzle
- fret
- furuncle
- gall
- gash
- gathering
- grate
- grief
- grind
- gripe
- gumboil
- harm
- harrow
- hex
- hurt
- incision
- injury
- jinx
- kibe
- laceration
- lesion
- martyr
- maul
- menace
- mutilation
- nip
- outrage
- pain
- pang
- papule
- paronychia
- passion
- petechia
- pierce
- piles
- pimple
- pinch
- pock
- poison
- polyp
- prejudice
- prick
- puncture
- pustule
- rack
- rasp
- rend
- rent
- rip
- rising
- rub
- run
- rupture
- savage
- scab
- scald
- scathe
- scorch
- scotch
- scrape
- scratch
- scuff
- shock
- skin
- slash
- slit
- sore
- spasm
- sprain
- stab
- stick
- stigma
- sting
- strain
- stress
- stroke
- sty
- suffering
- suppuration
- swelling
- taint
- tear
- throes
- torment
- torture
- trauma
- tubercle
- tweak
- twist
- ulcer
- ulceration
- wale
- welt
- wheal
- whelk
- whitlow
- wrench
- wring
- wrong
wound (v.)
- abrade
- abuse
- ache
- afflict
- affront
- aggrieve
- agonize
- ail
- anguish
- bark
- befoul
- bewitch
- bite
- blemish
- blight
- blister
- bloody
- blow
- boil
- break
- bruise
- burn
- canker
- chafe
- check
- chip
- claw
- condemn
- convulse
- corrupt
- crack
- crackle
- cramp
- craze
- crucify
- curse
- cut
- damage
- defile
- deprave
- despoil
- destroy
- disadvantage
- distress
- doom
- envenom
- excruciate
- fester
- fracture
- fray
- frazzle
- fret
- gall
- gash
- gnaw
- grate
- grieve
- grind
- gripe
- harass
- harm
- harrow
- hex
- hurt
- impair
- incise
- infect
- inflame
- injure
- irritate
- jinx
- lacerate
- maim
- maltreat
- martyr
- martyrize
- maul
- menace
- mistreat
- molest
- mutilate
- nip
- offend
- outrage
- pain
- pang
- persecute
- pierce
- pinch
- pock
- poison
- pollute
- prejudice
- prick
- puncture
- rack
- rankle
- rasp
- rend
- rent
- rip
- rub
- run
- rupture
- savage
- scab
- scald
- scorch
- scotch
- scrape
- scratch
- scuff
- shock
- skin
- slash
- slit
- sprain
- stab
- stick
- sting
- strain
- stress
- stroke
- sty
- taint
- tear
- threaten
- torment
- torture
- traumatize
- tweak
- twist
- violate
- welt
- whelk
- wrench
- wring
- wrong
wound (adj.)
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
That all was lost.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.
But from the hoop's bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.
Put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
