单词 | wound |
释义 | wound (once / 47 pages) 1nv 2adj A wound is a serious injury, especially a deep cut through the skin. But things like pride and feelings can also get wounded. Wounds are serious: we're talking a lot worse than just a scrape or booboo. Just about all the meanings of this word have to do with being hurt. If you got stabbed, you got a stab wound. Soldiers in battle get a lot of wounds from enemies. If someone told you to shut up, they might wound your feelings. If you slipped in a puddle in front of your friends, that might wound your pride. WORD FAMILYwound: wounded, woundedly, wounding, woundingly, wounds+/wounded: unwounded, woundedest, woundeds/wounding: woundings USAGE EXAMPLES“My thoughts,” said the poet and priest George Herbert, “are all a case of knives / Wounding my heart.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The five explosions wounded 49 people, they added. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) A booby-trapped drone launched by Islamic State militants killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers in October near Mosul. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) Syn|Hypo|Hyper lesion raw wound a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue stigmatamarks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ abrasion, excoriation, scrape, scratchan abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off cut, gash, slash, slicea wound made by cutting lacerationa torn ragged wound bitea wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person grazea superficial abrasion rope burnabrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope dog bitea bite inflicted by a dog snakebitea bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake harm, hurt, injury, trauma any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. 2n the act of inflicting a wound Syn|Hyper wounding damage, harm, hurt, scathe the act of damaging something or someone 3n a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat Syn|Hypo|Hyper combat injury, injury blighty wound a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad flesh wounda wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones loss, personnel casualty military personnel lost by death or capture 4n 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 Hyper distress, hurt, suffering psychological suffering 5v cause injuries or bodily harm to Syn|Hypo|Hyper injure trample injure by trampling or as if by trampling concussinjure the brain; sustain a concussion calkinjure with a calk excruciate, torment, torturesubject to torture overstretch, pullstrain abnormally shock, traumatise, traumatizeinflict a trauma upon maiminjure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wricktwist suddenly so as to sprain subluxatesprain or dislocate slightly disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalidinjure permanently harmcause or do harm to run down, run overinjure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle break, fracturefracture a bone of hit, pip, shoothit with a missile from a weapon knife, stabuse a knife on scrape, skinbruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of bruise, contuseinjure the underlying soft tissue or bone of grazebreak the skin (of a body part) by scraping racktorture on the rack martyr, martyrise, martyrizetorture and torment like a martyr sickenmake sick or ill mar, mutilatedestroy or injure severely cripple, lamedeprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg hockdisable by cutting the hock gun downstrike down or shoot down grassshoot down, of birds kneecapshoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning poniardstab with a poniard bayonetstab or kill someone with a bayonet crush, jamcrush or bruise hurt give trouble or pain to 6v hurt the feelings of 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite affront, diss, insult treat, mention, or speak to rudely laceratedeeply hurt the feelings of; distress stingcause an emotional pain, as if by stinging abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortifycause to feel shame; hurt the pride of crush, demolish, smashhumiliate or depress completely degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take downreduce in worth or character, usually verbally arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) adj put in a coil Syn coiled curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) |
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