wound
1. an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) (Freq. 22)
• Syn:
lesion
• Hypernyms:
injury, hurt, harm, trauma
• Hyponyms:
raw wound, stigmata, abrasion, scratch, scrape,
scrape, cut, gash, slash, slice,
laceration, bite
2. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
injury, combat injury
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
personnel casualty, loss
• Hyponyms:
blighty wound, flesh wound
3. 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
• Hypernyms:
distress, hurt, suffering
4. the act of inflicting a wound
• Syn:
wounding
• Derivationally related forms:
wound (for: wounding)
• Hypernyms:
damage, harm, hurt, scathe
1. cause injuries or bodily harm to (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
injure
• Derivationally related forms:
wounding, injury (for: injure)
• Hypernyms:
hurt
• Hyponyms:
trample, concuss, calk, torture, excruciate,
torment, pull, overstretch, traumatize, traumatise, shock,
maim, twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick,
rick, subluxate, disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap,
harm, run down, run over, fracture, break, shoot,
hit, pip, knife, stab, skin, scrape,
bruise, contuse, graze
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. hurt the feelings of
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
- This remark really bruised my ego
• Syn:
hurt, injure, bruise, offend, spite
• Derivationally related forms:
spite (for: spite), offensive (for: offend), offence (for: offend), offense (for: offend)
• Hypernyms:
arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke,
fire, raise, provoke
• Hyponyms:
diss, insult, affront, lacerate, sting,
humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot wound Sue
put in a coil
• Similar to:
coiled
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