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wound

(w/u/nd )

an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)(noun.state)

Synonym:
lesion

source: wordnet30
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat(noun.event)

Synonym:
combat injury, injury

source: wordnet30
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)(noun.feeling)

Example:
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.

source: wordnet30
the act of inflicting a wound(noun.act)

Synonym:
wounding

source: wordnet30
A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.(noun)

source: webster1913

cause injuries or bodily harm to(verb.body)

Synonym:
injure

source: wordnet30
hurt the feelings of(verb.emotion)

Synonym:
bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite

source: wordnet30
To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.(verb)

source: webster1913

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