cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /jəˈsɛlf/
note: strong form, pour–poor merger
ipa: /jɔːˈsɛlf/
note: strong form, without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /jʊəˈsɛlf/
note: weak form
ipa: /jɚˈsɛlf/
note: strong form
ipa: /jɔɹˈsɛlf/
note: strong form
ipa: /jʊɹˈsɛlf/
rhymes: -ɛlf
Forms: form: you
form: yerself
form: yo'self
form: yoself
form: Yourself
Etymology: From Middle English yourself, equivalent to your + -self.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
text: After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
text: As an adult, you would find yourself being a people pleaser with the men in your life –– afraid to be rejected and emotionally abandoned.
ref: 2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
glosses: Your own self (singular).
examples: text: You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
glosses: You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved.
examples: text: I spoke with yourself last in February.
text: No one understands me like yourself.
text: My colleague and yourself are invited to the conference.
text: I only spoke to my lawyer and yourself about the issue.
glosses: You (singular); even when "you" has not been used previously; see usage notes.
Derived terms: because you touch yourself at night
buy yourself a hat
check yourself before you wreck yourself
dig yourself
do-it-yourself
do it yourself
don't keep a dog and bark yourself
don't knock yourself out
fuck yourself
go chase yourself
go screw yourself
go shit yourself
hello yourself, and see how you like it
keep telling yourself that
keep yourself safe
make yourself at home
please yourself
stab yourself and pass the dagger
take care of
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
yours
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)z/
ipa: /jʊəz/
ipa: /jəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
enpr: yôrz
ipa: /jɔɹz/
ipa: /jʊɚz/
ipa: /jɝz/
ipa: /jɚz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
homophone: yaws (in some non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: yours
form: your's
Etymology: From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
Senses: examples: text: If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
text: Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.
text: Are all these socks yours?
raw_tags: double possessive
text: The socks of yours are a bit niffy.
text: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.
examples: text: Let's go over to yours.
glosses: Your house or home.
examples: text: Yours sincerely,  Yours faithfully,  Yours,  Sincerely yours,
glosses: Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
Synonyms: english: obsolete outside Britain and US dialects
translation: obsolete outside Britain and US dialects
word: yourn
Derived terms: beg yours
both of yours
I don't fancy yours
truly yours
up yours
what's yours
wouldn't touch with yours
you and yours
you'll get yours
yours ever
yours trulies
yours truly
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
your
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: yo͝o
note: r
enpr: yô
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /jʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /jə(ɹ)/
enpr: yôr
ipa: /jɔɹ/
ipa: /jʊɹ/
ipa: /jɝ/
ipa: /jɚ/
ipa: /jʊəɹ/
ipa: /jɜ(ː)ɹ/
ipa: /jɚ/
ipa: /jɪʊɹ/
ipa: /jɪəɹ/
ipa: /jəɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: yōr
ipa: /jo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /joə/
note: non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /joʊ/
homophone: you're
homophone: yore (pour–poor merger or dialectal)
homophone: yaw (non-rhotic, paw–poor merger or dialectal)
homophone: yo (non-rhotic, show–sure merger)
homophone: ewer (one pronunciation, non-rhotic, without the pour–poor merger, rare)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of you're.
younger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.
text: Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.
glosses: comparative form of young: more young
Derived terms: younger brother
younger sister
younger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈjʌŋɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: youngers
Senses: examples: text: Hugh and Charlie also played fairly well, so perhaps it was not wonderful that James, who had always regarded cricket as a childish waste of time, felt rather at a loss, and did not care to display his inferiority to his youngers.
ref: 1882, L. H. Apaque, A baker's dozen, page 102:
text: Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.
ref: 1964, Robert S. Fox, Ronald Lippitt, John E. Lohman, Teaching of Social Science Material in the Elementary School, page 3:
text: First, the use of Hindi is more among the males than among the females irrespective of the interaction with elders, equals or youngers.
ref: 1980, Hans Raj Dua, Language use in Himachal Pradesh, page 249:
text: A section of semi-structured interview schedule was also included in the research in order to test if youngers face any problem with elders staying with them.
ref: 1997, M. G. Husain, Changing Indian Society And Status Of Aged, page 162:
text: So, it is necessary to educate our youngers about economy and,^([sic]) school and college education can do this easily.
ref: 2008, Janardan Prasad, Panorama of Indian education, page 61:
text: There are the usual tensions between elders and middles, and between middles and youngers.
ref: 2011, Carroll Anne Sheppard, Nancy Burton Dilliplane, Congregational Connections: Uniting Six Generations in the Church, page 49:
text: Half of them youngers didn't know how much these Brixton olders are affiliated with these Peckham olders
ref: 2014, Simon Harding, Street Casino: Survival in violent street gangs:
glosses: One who is younger than another.
young
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yŭng
ipa: /jʌŋ/
ipa: /jʊŋɡ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: young
form: youngs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
Senses: examples: text: The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
text: The lion's young are curious about the world around them.
text: There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]
ref: 2010, Mammal Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide, page 21:
glosses: Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
raw_tags: as if a plural noun
Derived terms: youth is wasted on the young
young
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yŭng
ipa: /jʌŋ/
ipa: /jʊŋɡ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: youngs
form: younging
form: younged
form: younged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Cognates
Cognate with Alemannic German jung, jungu, junhs, jungà, jòng (“young”), Bavarian junk (“young”), Central Franconian, Luxembourgish jonk (“young”), Cimbrian djung, jung, junk (“young”), Dutch jong (“young”), German, German Low German, Mòcheno and Vilamovian jung (“young”), Limburgish jong, jonk (“young”), Yiddish יונג (yung, “young”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish ung (“young”), Faroese, Icelandic ungur (“young”), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs, “young”).
Senses: examples: text: The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).
ref: 1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: To become or seem to become younger.
examples: text: Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.
ref: 1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: To cause to appear younger.
examples: text: Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
ref: 1994, R. Kerrich, D.A. Wyman, “The mesothermal gold-lamprophyre association”, in Mineralogy and Petrology, →DOI:
text: The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.
ref: 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To exhibit younging.
you
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /jɪ/
ipa: /jə/
enpr: yə
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jy/
ipa: /iː/
ipa: /jʉ/
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: [jʉː]
ipa: [jɪu̯]
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /jʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: yew
homophone: yu
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
other: /t/
other: /d/
other: /s/
other: /z/
other: /j/
other: /tʃ/
other: /dʒ/
other: /ʃ/
other: /ʒ/
Forms: form: ye
form: ya
form: yah
form: yer
form: yeh
form: y'
form: yo
form: yu
form: yuh
form: yoo
form: yew
form: -cha
raw_tags: after /t/
form: -ja
raw_tags: after /d/
form: u
form: yuo
form: youe
form: yow
form: yowe
Etymology: From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-West Germanic *iwwi (“you”, dative case of *jiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), the Western form of Proto-Germanic *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”, plural).
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), German euch (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šo (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”).
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
Senses: examples: text: Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
glosses: The individual or group spoken or written to.
examples: text: You idiot!
text: 'You genius!' I shouted in Aretta's ear. 'You absolute genius! Why didn't you tell us you were so good?'
ref: 2015, Judi Curtin, Only Eva, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
Derived terms: y'all
you guys
yous
you-uns
you
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /jɪ/
ipa: /jə/
enpr: yə
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jy/
ipa: /iː/
ipa: /jʉ/
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: [jʉː]
ipa: [jɪu̯]
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /jʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: yew
homophone: yu
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
other: /t/
other: /d/
other: /s/
other: /z/
other: /j/
other: /tʃ/
other: /dʒ/
other: /ʃ/
other: /ʒ/
Forms: form: yous
form: youing
form: youed
form: youed
form: ye
form: ya
form: yah
form: yer
form: yeh
form: y'
form: yo
form: yu
form: yuh
form: yoo
form: yew
form: -cha
raw_tags: after /t/
form: -ja
raw_tags: after /d/
form: u
form: yuo
form: youe
form: yow
form: yowe
Etymology: From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-West Germanic *iwwi (“you”, dative case of *jiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), the Western form of Proto-Germanic *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”, plural).
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), German euch (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šo (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”).
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
Senses: examples: text: Youing consists in relating everything in the conversation to the person you wish to flatter, and introducing the word “you” into your speech as often as possible.
ref: 1930, Barrington Hall, Modern Conversation, Brewer & Warren, page 239:
text: Now even Princess Anne had dropped it. Sarah had heard her youing away on television the other night just like the inhabitants of her mother’s dominions beyond the seas.
ref: 1992, Barbara Anderson, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Victoria University Press, page 272:
text: But even having my very own personal pronoun was risky, because it’s pretty tough to keep stopped-hope stopped up when you are getting all youed up, when someone you really like keeps promising you scary, fun, exciting stuff—and even tougher for the^([sic]) of that moment to remain securely devoid of hope, to make smart, self-denying decisions with Dad you'''ing me—the long ooo of it broad and extended, like a hand.
ref: 2004, Ellen Miller, “Practicing”, in Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books:
glosses: To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
you
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /jɪ/
ipa: /jə/
enpr: yə
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jy/
ipa: /iː/
ipa: /jʉ/
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: [jʉː]
ipa: [jɪu̯]
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /jʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: yew
homophone: yu
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
other: /t/
other: /d/
other: /s/
other: /z/
other: /j/
other: /tʃ/
other: /dʒ/
other: /ʃ/
other: /ʒ/
Forms: form: yous
form: u
Senses: examples: text: ‘Eff. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun![…]’
ref: 1969, Michael Feld, The Sabbatical Year, London: Alan Ross Ltd, page 301:
text: It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
text: ‘S-S-C…sitting on a tree…eff-you-cee-kay-i-en-ji.’
ref: 2019, Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam, The Rat Eater, Bloomsbury India, →ISBN:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.
Derived terms: doubleyou
yet
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: yeat
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yet, yit, from Old English ġīet, gȳta, from Proto-West Germanic *jūta, from Proto-Germanic *juta (compare West Frisian jit, jitte (“yet”), Dutch ooit (“ever”), German jetzt (“now”)), compound of (1) *ju (“already”, adverb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, accusative of *h₂óyu (“long time”) and (2) the Proto-Germanic *ta (“to, towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *do. More at aye and -th.
Senses: examples: text: I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!
text: It’s incredible yet true.
text: Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 173:
text: Emaciated little creatures, with skin harsh and rough, rapid pulse, nerves ever on the strain—have yet a look of lively intelligence.
ref: 1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, page 10:
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.
Synonyms: be that as it may
even so
withal
nevertheless
Derived terms: as yet
yet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: yets
form: yetting
form: yet
form: yetted
form: yet
form: yetted
form: yoten
form: yit
form: yete
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.
Senses: examples: text: […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue
ref: 1502, William Atkynson (translator), De Imitatione Christi, in 1893, John Kells Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, page 221
roman: yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name.
text: Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face
In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place
Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly
Lyes venemous, […]
ref: 1509 (edition published 1874), Alexander Barclay (translator), The Ship of Fools (originally by Sebastian Brant), page 211
glosses: To pour.
examples: text: […] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.
ref: 1531 (edition reprinted 1880), Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour, page 48
glosses: To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
yet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: yets
form: yit
form: yete
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.
Senses: glosses: A metal pan or boiler; yetling.
yet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: yets
form: yetting
form: yot
form: yotten
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English yeten, ȝeten, from Old English ġietan, from Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-. More at get.
Senses: glosses: To get.
wrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌŋ/
homophone: rng
homophone: rung
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: examples: I wrung out my wet jeans and hung them out to dry.
glosses: simple past and past participle of wring
wrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔːt/
ipa: /ɹɔt/
ipa: /ɹɑt/
homophone: rort (non-rhotic)
homophone: rot (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: more wrought
form: most wrought
Etymology: The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle ġeworht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked.
Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
Senses: examples: text: Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
glosses: Having been worked or prepared somehow.
Derived terms: high-wrought
wrought iron
wrought-up
wrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔːt/
ipa: /ɹɔt/
ipa: /ɹɑt/
homophone: rort (non-rhotic)
homophone: rot (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle ġeworht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked.
Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
Senses: examples: text: What hath God wrought?
text: It was no very easy task, for the skiff lay amidships and was full of hamper, and the breaking of the heavier seas continually forced us to give over and hold on; but we all wrought like horses while we could.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: I need not describe his attainments as sheep-farmer or shepherd; he scarcely learned the barest rudiments; and the sage master of Clachlands trusted him only when he wrought under his own vigilant eye.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, Summer Weather:
text: That world in torment, those countless hands stretched upward in appeal, that murmur of infinite pain, the cry of the hungry, of the widow, of men sitting by tireless hearths, of children dying in mill and mine—the picture wrought on her so strongly, that she could not rest.
ref: 1919, Stanley J. Weyman, “XIII. Peter Pauper”, in The Great House:
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
text: The goldsmiths who wrought the gold, those were Medes and Egyptians. The men who wrought the wood, those were Sardians and Egyptians. The men who wrought the baked brick, those were Babylonians.
ref: 2001, Josef Wiesehofer, Ancient Persia, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: simple past and past participle of work
examples: text: We are, however, in danger of ignoring the more fundamental lessons, forgetting the imperative to root out and to curb within our societies at every level—most importantly that of the individual—the greed, avarice, corruption and hubris which has wrought and will wreak so much havoc, not just in our relatively rich countries, but has its impact most unfairly on the poorer, unsophisticated countries.
ref: 2008, The Parliamentary Debates : House of Lords official report, page 85:
glosses: simple past and past participle of wreak
Derived terms: bewrought
forewrought
forwrought
inwrought
miswrought
overwrought
underwrought
unwrought
wrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
homophone: rote
rhymes: -əʊt
Senses: examples: text: We all wrote down the instructions.
glosses: simple past of write
examples: text: I have wrote without any Reſentment againſt him, knowing very well how apt young People are to miſtake their Talents, to fancy they are Maſters of every Point of Knowledge wherein they have dipped never ſo little[…]
ref: 1743, Corbyn Morris, A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Carte, Author of the Full Anſwer to The Letter from a Byſtander, Jacob Robinson, page 122:
text: I take it very kind in the gentleman to have wrote up to you and said, “let Mrs Gamp take care of him till I come home;” but ev’rythink he does is kind. There an’t a many like him. If there was, we shouldn’t want no churches.’
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Is in part Professional; and furnishes the Reader with some Valuable Hints in relation to the Management of a Sick Chamber”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 306:
text: It has been almost ten years since I have wrote Embodied Prayer. Much has happened in my own life, including profound loss through divorce, and changes in my vocational life. I am not the same person that I was when I wrote it, and neither is my body, or rather what I would call my "bodysoul".
ref: 2004 [1995], Celeste Snowber, Embodied Prayer: Toward a Wholeness of Body, Mind, and Soul, Wood Lake Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: past participle of write
Derived terms: that's all she wrote
wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ɹæŋ/
enpr: rông
ipa: /ˈɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: more wrong
form: most wrong
Etymology: From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Senses: examples: text: I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
text: You're doing it all wrong!
text: `Then, just as I was, I walked out of the house and went to the recruiting-office, stating my age wrong.'
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 131:
glosses: In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ɹæŋ/
enpr: rông
ipa: /ˈɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: wrongs
Etymology: From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Senses: examples: text: Injustice is a heinous wrong.
synonyms: depravity
iniquity
sin
glosses: Something that is immoral or not good.
examples: text: Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
ref: 1597, John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, Part V:
synonyms: word: hardship
word: sorrow
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
examples: text: I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 101:
synonyms: error
wrength
wrongness
wrongfulness
glosses: The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
examples: text: Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], line 28:
synonyms: word: impropriety
word: roguery
word: bad manners
word: badness
word: delinquency
word: devilishness
word: devilment
word: devilry
word: deviltry
word: disobedience
word: elfishness
word: goings-on
word: hanky-panky
word: impishness
word: impropriety
word: misbehavior
word: mischief
word: mischievousness
word: misconduct
word: misdemeanor
word: monkey business
word: naughtiness
word: prankishness
word: pranksomeness
word: puckishness
word: rascality
word: roguery
word: roguishness
word: scampishness
word: wrong
word: wrongness
glosses: The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
Derived terms: in the wrong
heinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈhiːnəs/
rhymes: -eɪnəs
Forms: form: more heinous
form: most heinous
form: hainous
Etymology: From Middle English hainous, from Old French haïneus (compare French haineux) from haïr (“to hate”), hadir (“to hate”) (compare Old French enhadir (“to become filled with hate”)), from Frankish *hattjan (“to hate”)
The fluctuation between pronunciations with /eɪ/ and /iː/ is old; the former reflects adoption of an unmonophthongised pronunciation of Old French -ai-, while the latter reflects a monophthongised form.
Senses: examples: text: I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.
text: The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.
text: Perhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.
ref: 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Totally reprehensible.
glosses: Bad, evil or villainous.
Synonyms: sense: totally reprehensible
word: abominable
sense: totally reprehensible
word: horrible
sense: totally reprehensible
word: odious
Derived terms: heinously
heinousness
unheinous
Related terms: hate
written
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈɹɪʔt̚n̩]
note: t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈɹɪ.ʔn̩]
note: t-flapping
ipa: [ˈɹɪ.ɾn̩]
homophone: ridden (t-flapping)
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾɪtən/
homophone: return (non-rhotic, stress neutralized)
rhymes: -ɪtən
Etymology: Morphologically write + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Written language is a way of representing spoken language.
antonyms: oral
verbal
glosses: Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).
examples: text: I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
antonyms: unwritten
glosses: Having been written.
Derived terms: above-written
bewritten
could be written on the back of a postage stamp
custom-written
hand-written
have one's name written all over
history is written by the victors
unwrittenness
written all over it
written all over someone's face
written in someone's face
written in stone
written in the stars
writtenness
written out
written record
written statement of employment
written
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪ.tn̩/
ipa: [ˈɹɪʔt̚n̩]
note: t-glottalization
ipa: [ˈɹɪ.ʔn̩]
note: t-flapping
ipa: [ˈɹɪ.ɾn̩]
homophone: ridden (t-flapping)
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾɪtən/
homophone: return (non-rhotic, stress neutralized)
rhymes: -ɪtən
Etymology: Morphologically write + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: past participle of write
write
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīt
ipa: /ɹaɪt/
ipa: [ɹaɪt]
ipa: [ɹɐɪt]
ipa: [ɹɑjt]
ipa: [ɹæ̙ːt]
ipa: [ɹæ̙ːʔ]
ipa: [ɹəjt]
ipa: [ɹɑɪt]
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: right
homophone: rite
homophone: wright
Forms: form: writes
Etymology: From Middle English writen, from Old English wrītan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ryć (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.
Senses: examples: text: The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.
ref: 1938, The Bankers Monthly, volume 55, page 591:
glosses: The act or style of writing.
examples: text: How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?
text: In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.
ref: 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference, page 393:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.
Derived terms: quick-write
weave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēv
ipa: /wiːv/
homophone: we've
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: weaves
form: weaving
form: wove
form: weaved
form: woven
form: weaved
form: wove
Etymology: From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).
Senses: examples: text: This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
glosses: To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
examples: text: Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
glosses: To spin a cocoon or a web.
examples: text: This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: these words, thus woven into song
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CII:
glosses: To unite by close connection or intermixture.
examples: text: to weave the plot of a story
text: According to the simple meaning, these verses warn against forgetting the Torah and against idol worship, but our Sages wove them into an Aggadic passage which deals with physical danger in order to say: Jews must protect their physical health.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Is Body Piercing Permitted According To Jewish Law”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 193:
glosses: To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
Related terms: web
sew
weave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēv
ipa: /wiːv/
homophone: we've
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: weaves
Etymology: From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).
Senses: examples: text: That rug has a very tight weave.
text: Although fabrics of complex weave can most surely be identified as being imports, others, including a vast array of simple fabrics—bedding, table linens, everyday clothing fabrics—could have been made on either side of the Atlantic, since the materials and equipment were the same.
ref: 1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: A type or way of weaving.
examples: text: The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
ref: 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
Derived terms: basketweave
even-weave
mana weave
Panama weave
plain weave
satin weave
Thach weave
what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
weave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēv
ipa: /wiːv/
homophone: we've
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: weaves
form: weaving
form: weaved
form: weaved
Etymology: From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.
Senses: examples: text: The drunk weaved into another bar.
text: The victims’ feeling of incredulity at what they were seeing, swiftly turning to paralysing fear as the van bore down on them, swerving and weaving to hit as many people as possible, can barely be imagined.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
text: Tevez picked up a throw-in from the right, tip-toed his way into the area and weaved past three Wolves challenges before slotting in to display why, of all City's multi-million pound buys, he remains their most important player.
ref: 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC:
glosses: To move by turning and twisting.
examples: text: The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
text: Weave a circle round him thrice,
 And close your eyes with holy dread:
 For he on honey-dew hath fed,
 And drank the milk of Paradise.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 58:
glosses: To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
glosses: To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
raw_tags: of an animal
wove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊv/
ipa: /woʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: examples: text: She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.
glosses: simple past of weave
examples: text: One might have wove Stuffs with it, had it been prepar'd.
ref: 1701, Francis Leguat, A new voyage to the Eaſt-Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions […] , page 61:
text: […]and the pearls which they have wove among her black tresses, were whiter than the frozen hail drops.
ref: 1823, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, page 187:
text: […]enlisting as soldiers, during the late war, who, had they stuck to their looms, would have wove, at least, 50 pounds worth of cloth each in the year
ref: 2005, W. H. Crawford, The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster, Ulster Historical Foundation, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: past participle of weave
wove
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊv/
ipa: /woʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: glosses: made on a mould of closely woven wire
raw_tags: of paper
Related terms: wirewove
wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞ond
ipa: /wuːnd/
ipa: /wyːnd/
ipa: /wʉːnd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʋuːnd/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʋuːɳɖ/
enpr: wound
ipa: /waʊnd/
rhymes: -uːnd
Forms: form: wounds
Etymology: Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.
Senses: examples: text: The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.
ref: 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 3]:
text: I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
examples: text: It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.
glosses: A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
qualifier: crime law
glosses: An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
Synonyms: sense: injury
word: injury
sense: injury
word: lesion
sense: something that offends a person's feelings
word: slight
sense: something that offends a person's feelings
word: slur
sense: something that offends a person's feelings
word: insult
Derived terms: axe wound
Blighty wound
contact wound
defense wound
defensive wound
dirty wound
entrance wound
entry wound
exit wound
flesh wound
gutter wound
hatchet wound
hesitation wound
keyhole wound
lick one's wounds
open wound
put a band-aid on a bullet wound
reopen old wounds
rub salt in the wound
salt in the wound
self-defense wound
stab wound
tentative wound
time heals all wounds
time heals every wound
turn the knife in the wound
twist the knife in the wound
wound cambium
wound collecting
wound collection
wound collector
wound cork
wound gall
wound gum
wound parasite
wound wood