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/zuːndz/ · interjection
(chiefly dated, minced oath) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc..
'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
Bounds, mounds, lounds, founds, kounds, downds, rounds, pounds, zounds! — hounds — ha! hounds — I have it.
"Zounds!" he exclaimed. "What the dickens is that?"
Use zounds when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zounds means (chiefly dated, minced oath) Expressing anger, surprise, assertion etc..
Common synonyms include gadswoons, 'swounds, 'dswounds, zooterkins.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death!
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