different between wound vs disgust

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)

2. 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.

3. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.

   It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

4. (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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-g?st?
• IPA^(key): /d?s???st/, [d?s?k?st]
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: dis?gust
• Homophone: discussed

Verb

disgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)

1. To cause an intense dislike for something.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.

Translations

Noun

disgust (uncountable)

1. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

   With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

Translations

Further reading

• disgust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disgust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disgust at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

dis- +? gust

Noun

disgust m (plural disgusts or disgustos)

1. displeasure

   Antonym: plaer

Derived terms

• disgustar

Further reading

• “disgust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “disgust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “disgust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “disgust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.