Wound vs. Weal
Difference Between Wound and Weal
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.
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Weal➦
Prosperity; happiness
in weal and woe.
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Wound➦
An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
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Weal➦
The welfare of the community; the general good
the public weal.
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Wound➦
An injury to the feelings.
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Weal➦
A ridge on the flesh raised by a blow; a welt.
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Wound➦
To inflict wounds or a wound on.
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Weal➦
(obsolete) Wealth, riches.
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Wound➦
To inflict wounds or a wound
harsh criticism that wounds.
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Weal➦
(literary) Welfare, prosperity.
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Wound➦
Past tense and past participle of wind2.
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Weal➦
(by extension) Boon, benefit.
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Wound➦
A past tense and a past participle of wind3.
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Weal➦
Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
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Wound➦
An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
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Weal➦
A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
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Wound➦
(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
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Weal➦
To mark with stripes; to wale.
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Wound➦
An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
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Weal➦
The mark of a stripe. See Wale.
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Wound➦
(transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.
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Weal➦
A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
God . . . grant you wele and prosperity.
As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.
To him linked in weal or woe.
Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.
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Wound➦
(transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.
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Weal➦
The body politic; the state; common wealth.
The special watchmen of our English weal.
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Wound➦
simple past tense and past participle of wind#Etymology 2|wind
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Weal➦
To mark with stripes. See Wale.
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Wound➦
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.
Showers of bloodRained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
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Weal➦
To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
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Wound➦
Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
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Weal➦
a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
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Wound➦
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.
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Wound➦
To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
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Wound➦
To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
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Wound➦
any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
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Wound➦
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
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Wound➦
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride);
he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound
deep in her breast lives the silent wound
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it
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Wound➦
the act of inflicting a wound
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Wound➦
cause injuries or bodily harm to
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Wound➦
hurt the feelings of;
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
This remark really bruised me ego
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Wound➦
put in a coil
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