Injury vs. Wound

Injurynoun

Damage to the body of a human or animal.

Injurynoun

The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

Injurynoun

(archaic) Injustice.

Injuryverb

(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

Injurynoun

Any damage or hurt done to a person or thing; detriment to, or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character.

Injurynoun

any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.

Injurynoun

an accident that results in physical damage or hurt

Injurynoun

a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Injurynoun

an act that injures someone

Injurynoun

an instance of being injured

Injurynoun

the fact of being injured; harm or damage

Injurynoun

damage to a person's feelings

Injury

Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force. This may be caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and other causes.

Woundnoun

An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

Woundnoun

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

Woundnoun

An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

Woundverb

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

Woundverb

(transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).

Woundverb

simple past tense and past participle of wind

Wound

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

Woundnoun

A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.

Woundnoun

Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

Woundnoun

An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.

Woundverb

To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.

Woundverb

To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

Woundnoun

any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision

Woundnoun

a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Woundnoun

a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride);

Woundnoun

the act of inflicting a wound

Woundverb

cause injuries or bodily harm to

Woundverb

hurt the feelings of;

Woundadjective

put in a coil

Wound

A wound is a type of injury which happens relatively quickly in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the epidermis of the skin.