What's the difference between offend and wound?

Offend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.
  • (v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.
  • (v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
  • (v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.
  • (v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (2) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (3) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (4) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (5) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
  • (6) Driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders with either alcohol- or cocaine-related problems were studied.
  • (7) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
  • (8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (9) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
  • (10) The number of suspected or known offenders has doubled in three years to 1,139 in 2016.
  • (11) Therefore, the authors present an update of the changing conceptualizations regarding the offenders and their victims.
  • (12) The authors favor conservative treatment of tennis elbow, starting with cessation of the offending activity and prescription of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and followed by isometric and isotonic exercises when pain and inflammation have subsided.
  • (13) The joint report also highlights the fact that bad behaviour by inmates on the prison wings is seen as a security issue rather than something that needs to be addressed by the offender management unit.
  • (14) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (15) The offending organism was gram-negative in one third of these abscesses.
  • (16) In our highly medicated society, correctly identifying the offending medication is often difficult.
  • (17) These findings suggest that judges may perceive of and sentence repeat offenders differently than first-time offenders, regardless of the level of intoxication at arrest.
  • (18) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
  • (19) A spokesperson for the PPS's office in Belfast said: "Based on the initial evidence the specified prosecutor in this case had concluded that the assisting offender had knowingly breached his agreement under section 73 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and that it was in the interest of justice that the case should be referred back to the original sentencing court.
  • (20) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.

Wound


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
  • () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
  • (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
  • (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
  • (n.) An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
  • (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
  • (n.) To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (4) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (5) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (6) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
  • (7) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
  • (8) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
  • (9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (10) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (11) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
  • (12) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
  • (13) We based our approach on the anteroposterior location of the incarceration site and the amount of retina incarcerated into the wound.
  • (14) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (15) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
  • (16) In the aetiology the Periodontitis apicalis and wounds after tooth extractions are in the highest position.
  • (17) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
  • (18) The al-Shifa, like hospitals across Gaza, is chronically short of medical supplies after treating thousands of wounded during the conflict.
  • (19) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
  • (20) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.