Word Meanings - WOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WOUND)

• Aggravate
• Exasperate
• provoke
• wound
• heighten
• intensify
• irritate
• make worse
• increase
• enhance embitter
• magnify
• Aggrieve
• Wound
• trouble
• annoy
• hurt
• vex
• disappoint
• molest
• maltreat
• grieve
• afflict
• injure
• wrong
• Anger Enrage
• kindle
• fret
• ruffle
• chafe
• infuriate
• exasperate
• incense
• inflame
• imbitter
• Anguish
• Pain
• pang
• sorrow
• distress
• grief
• discomfort
• torture
• excruciation
• agony
• torment
• Blow
• Puff
• blast
• breath
• stroke
• infliction
• disappointment
• affliction
• knock
• shock
• calamity
• misfortune

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WOUND)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to WOUND)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• TORTURE
  Etym: 1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex. 2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak. 3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. Jar. Taylor. 4. To keep on the stretch, as
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• DISCOMFORT
  1. Discouragement. Shak. 2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.