wound
Noun
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An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) (synset 114322317)
is a type of: harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.subtypes:
- raw wound - a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue
- stigmata - marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
- abrasion, excoriation, scrape, scratch - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- cut, gash, slash, slice - a wound made by cutting
- laceration - a torn ragged wound
- bite - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
same as: lesion -
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat (synset 107354849)
referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nationis a type of: loss, personnel casualty - military personnel lost by death or capturesubtypes:
- blighty wound - a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad
- flesh wound - a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones
same as: combat injury, injury -
A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride) (synset 107512262)
"he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound"; "deep in her breast lives the silent wound"; "The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it"
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The act of inflicting a wound (synset 100404604)
same as: wounding
Adjective
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Put in a coil (synset 302325885)
similar to: coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
Verb
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Cause injuries or bodily harm to (synset 200069650)
is a type of: hurt - give trouble or pain tosubtypes:
- trample - injure by trampling or as if by trampling
- concuss - injure the brain; sustain a concussion
- calk - injure with a calk
- excruciate, torment, torture - subject to torture
- overstretch, pull - strain abnormally
- shock, traumatise, traumatize - inflict a trauma upon
- maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
- rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick - twist suddenly so as to sprain
- subluxate - sprain or dislocate slightly
- disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid - injure permanently
- harm - cause or do harm to
- run down, run over - injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
- break, fracture - fracture a bone of
- hit, pip, shoot - hit with a missile from a weapon
- knife, stab - use a knife on
- scrape, skin - bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- bruise, contuse - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
- graze - break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
same as: injure -
Hurt the feelings of (synset 201797206)
"She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"is a type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)subtypes:
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