different between wound vs aspersion
wound
English
Etymology 1
Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wund?. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wund?n?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: wo?ond, IPA(key): /wu?nd/
- (MLE) IPA(key): /wy?nd/
- (US) enPR: wo?ond, IPA(key): /wund/
- (obsolete) enPR: wound, IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -u?nd
Noun
wound (plural wounds)
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
- 1595 Shakespeare, "Wales. Before Flint castle", King Richard the Second.
- Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
- (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Synonyms
- (injury): injury, lesion
- (something that offends a person's feelings): slight, slur, insult
- See also Thesaurus:injury
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
wound (third-person singular simple present wounds, present participle wounding, simple past and past participle wounded)
- (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
- (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb wound had the form woundest, and had woundedst for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form woundeth was used.
Synonyms
- (injure): See Thesaurus:harm
- (hurt (feelings)): See Thesaurus:offend
Translations
Etymology 2
See wind (Etymology 2)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /wa?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Verb
wound
- simple past tense and past participle of wind
Derived terms
- drum-wound
- series-wound
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aspersion
English
Etymology
From Latin aspersi?nem, from aspersi? (“sprinkling”).
Noun
aspersion (plural aspersions)
- An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon…. [from late 16th c.]
- Synonyms: calumny, slander; see also Thesaurus:slander
- (obsolete) A sprinkling, especially of holy water.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- If thou dost break her virgin knot before
- All sanctimonious ceremonies may
- With full and holy rite be minister'd,
- No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
- To make this contract grow; but barren hate […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- (in the plural) slander, calumny
Derived terms
- cast aspersions
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “aspersion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- repassion
French
Noun
aspersion f (plural aspersions)
- aspersion
- sprinkling
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