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English adjective: wound | |||
| 1. | wound put in a coil | ||
| Similar | coiled | ||
| Antonyms | uncoiled, straight | ||
English noun: wound | |||
| 1. | wound (state) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | ||
| Synonyms | lesion | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | harm, hurt, injury, trauma | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abrasion, bite, cut, excoriation, gash, laceration, raw wound, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stigmata | ||
| 2. | wound (event) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | ||
| Synonyms | combat injury, injury | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | loss, personnel casualty | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blighty wound, flesh wound | ||
| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
| 3. | wound (feeling) a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride) | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distress, hurt, suffering | ||
| 4. | wound (act) the act of inflicting a wound | ||
| Synonyms | wounding | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | damage, harm, hurt, scathe | ||
English verb: wound | |||
| 1. | wound (body) cause injuries or bodily harm to | ||
| Synonyms | injure | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hurt | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | break, bruise, calk, concuss, contuse, disable, excruciate, fracture, graze, handicap, harm, hit, incapacitate, invalid, knife, maim, overstretch, pip, pull, rick, run down, run over, scrape, shock, shoot, skin, sprain, stab, subluxate, torment, torture, trample, traumatise, traumatize, turn, twist, wrench, wrick | ||
| 2. | wound (emotion) hurt the feelings of | ||
| Samples | She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests. This remark really bruised my ego. | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot wound Sue | ||
| Synonyms | bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abase, affront, chagrin, diss, humble, humiliate, insult, lacerate, mortify, sting | ||
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