different between wound vs grieve
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
wound From the web:
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- what wound means
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- what wounds deserve the purple heart
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- what wounds do they suffer
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- what wounds does holden have
grieve
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /??i?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Etymology 1
From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin grav?, grav?re, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
Verb
grieve (third-person singular simple present grieves, present participle grieving, simple past and past participle grieved)
- (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
- (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
- to grieve one's fate
- (intransitive) To experience grief.
- (transitive, archaic) To harm.
- (transitive) To submit or file a grievance (about).
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
- 2009 D'Amico, Rob, Editor, Texas Teacher, published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
Derived terms
- begrieve
- grieved
- griever
- grievingly
Related terms
- grievance
- grievous
- grief
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English greve, greyve, grave, grafe, from Old Norse greifi, from Middle Low German gr?ve, grâve,related to Old English grœfa, groefa, variants of Old English ?er?fa (“steward, reeve”). More at reeve.
Noun
grieve (plural grieves)
- (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
- (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
Derived terms
- grieveship
Anagrams
- regive
Old French
Verb
grieve
- third-person singular present indicative of grever
grieve From the web:
- what grieves the holy spirit
- what grieves god
- what grieve mean
- what grieves god's heart the most
- what grief
- what grieves the spirit
- what grief looks like
- what grief means
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