Noun
1. any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
2. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
3. 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"--Robert Frost4. the act of inflicting a wound