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单词 wound
释义

wound1

/wuːnd /
noun
1An injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken: a knife wound chest wounds a wound to the thigh...
  • He had sustained fractures to his skull, pelvis, and lower back, chest wounds and a broken arm.
  • He received a number of stitches for knife wounds to his chest and arm.
  • He also had two stitches put in a wound to his scalp after being taken by ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Synonyms

injury, lesion, cut, gash, laceration, tear, rent, puncture, slash;
sore, graze, scratch, scrape, abrasion;
bruise, contusion;
Medicine trauma, traumatism
1.1An injury to a person’s feelings or reputation: the new crisis has opened old wounds...
  • You try to rekindle old flames and remember the past and tend to open old emotional wounds.
  • In a short period of time old wounds were opened up and picked over, and legal assumptions about historical restitution were overturned.
  • Reminiscing, the thought opens up old wounds for the proud Clare man.

Synonyms

insult, blow, slight, offence, affront;
hurt, harm, damage, injury, pain, pang, ache, distress, grief, trauma, anguish, torment, torture
verb [with object]
1Inflict a wound on: the sergeant was seriously wounded (as adjective wounded) a wounded soldier...
  • When soldiers surrounded the house, Mr Shwairah let off eight bursts of gunfire, seriously wounding one of the soldiers.
  • Three of the soldiers that I knew as comrades were seriously wounded by shrapnel and gunfire.
  • He still remembers the day when a deer unexpectedly attacked a former zoo official, seriously wounding him in the arm.

Synonyms

injure, hurt, damage, harm, maim, mutilate, disable, incapacitate, scar;
lacerate, cut, cut to ribbons, graze, scratch, gash, tear, tear apart, hack, rip, puncture, pierce, stab, slash
informal zap, plug, blast
1.1Injure (a person’s feelings): you really wounded his pride when you turned him down...
  • Challenges of this kind confront their notion of who they are, puncturing their complacency and wounding their egos, so that they are rarely able to resist responding.
  • That purge is wounding enough interests and egos to explain the current rift in the party, whatever else might be hidden in its depths.
  • It's a problem, and it's often more than a matter of not wounding a buddy's ego.

Synonyms

hurt, hurt the feelings of, scar, damage, harm, injure, insult, slight, offend, give offence to, affront, distress, disturb, upset, make miserable, trouble, discomfort;
grieve, sadden, mortify, anguish, pain, sting, cut to the quick, shock, traumatize, cause suffering to, torment, torture, crucify, tear to pieces, gnaw at

Derivatives

woundingly

/ˈwuːndɪŋli/ adverb ...
  • He can also be sharply, woundingly funny about ‘awful old England’, whose charms are not always obvious.
  • More woundingly than that, to be beaten into submission by such otherwise enfeebled opponents would damn him in the eyes of his friends.
  • She told him, quite woundingly, that he had not been so dejected when his own mother died.

woundless

adjective ...
  • I lifted my shirt, revealing my woundless stomach.
  • A pitiful thousand men left from our large expedition stood up to join me, almost none woundless.
  • Everyone can turn a blind eye to the woundless slashes of the lying tongue, the cruel word, the baleful onslaught.

Origin

Old English wund (noun), wundian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wond and German Wunde, of unknown ultimate origin.

Rhymes

wound2

/waʊnd /
Past and past participle of wind2.

wound3

/wound /
Alternate past and past participle of wind1.
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