wound

Meanings

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
• a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
• a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); ; ; --Robert Frost
  • "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"
• the act of inflicting a wound
• cause injuries or bodily harm to
• hurt the feelings of
• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
• extend in curves and turns
• arrange or or coil around
• catch the scent of; get wind of
• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
• form into a wreath
• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
• put in a coil

Synonyms

bruise, combat injury, curve, hoist, hurt, injure, injury, lesion, lift, meander, nose, offend, roll, scent, spite, thread, twine, twist, wander, weave, wind, wind up, wounding, wrap, wreathe