Difference between Wound and Injure

What is the difference between Wound and Injure?

Wound as a verb is to hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. while Injure as a verb is to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

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.

We hope you now know whether to use Wound or Injure in your sentence.

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