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