Wound
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An injury, such as a cut or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body. A hurt to a person's feelings. An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. To hurt (a person's feelings). To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
Example sentence: The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Injure
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.To damage or impair.To do injustice to.