wound
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Definition of wound:
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "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"--Robert Frost the act of inflicting a wound cause injuries or bodily harm to hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" put in a coil |