English Explanatory Dictionary

forwound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To wound or injure severely.

Word forms

forwound forwounds forwounding forwounded

Etymology

From Middle English forwounden, forwunden, from Old English forwundian (“to wound”), from Proto-West Germanic *frawundōn (“to wound, injure”), equivalent to for- + wound. Cognate with Dutch verwonden (“to injure, hurt, wound, gore”), German Low German verwunden, verwunnen (“to forwound”), German verwunden (“to wound, injure”).

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