Definition of wound

• any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
• a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
• 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 Frost