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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)

  1. 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.
  2. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
    It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
  3. (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)

  1. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
  2. (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

  1. simple past tense and past participle of wind

Derived terms

  • drum-wound
  • series-wound

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disadvantage

English

Alternative forms

  • disadvauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English disavauntage, from Old French desavantage.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?s'?d-vän't?j, IPA(key): /?d?s?d?v??nt?d?/
  • (General American) enPR: d?s'?d-v?n't?j, IPA(key): /?d?s?d?vænt?d?/

Noun

disadvantage (plural disadvantages)

  1. A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
  2. A setback or handicap.
    My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
    • 1774, Edmund Burke, speech to the electors of Bristol
      I was brought hither under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you.
    • 1859-1890, John G. Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
      Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage.
  3. Loss; detriment; hindrance.
    • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
      They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.

Synonyms

  • (an undesirable characteristic): afterdeal, con, drawback, malefit, downside
  • (a handicap): afterdeal, weakness

Antonyms

  • advantage

Translations

Verb

disadvantage (third-person singular simple present disadvantages, present participle disadvantaging, simple past and past participle disadvantaged)

  1. (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.
    They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
    • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
      For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.

Synonyms

  • tell against

Derived terms

  • disadvantageous
  • disadvantageously
  • disadvantageousness

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