wound
noun
an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
woundless
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a word derived from
wound.
Example Sentences
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Parini loved spending time with the worldly, woundless Vidal, and he seems eager to perpetuate Vidal’s myths about himself.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2015
Who but a god goes woundless all his way?….
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
"So, haply slander— Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot—may miss our name, And hit the woundless air."
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
He could get on pretty well even without his claws, usually striking his prey down with a blow, woundless; but he could by no means get on without his teeth.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
The woundless and invisible thought that goes Free throughout time as north or south wind blows, Far throughout space as east or west sea flows, And all dark things before it are made bright.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
