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Noun wound has 4 senses
- wound, lesion - any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
--1 is a kind of injury, hurt, harm, trauma
--1 has particulars:
- wound, injury, combat injury - a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
--2 is a kind of personnel casualty, loss
--2 has particulars: blighty wound; flesh wound
- wound - 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
--3 is a kind of distress, hurt, suffering
- wound, wounding - the act of inflicting a wound
--4 is a kind of damage, harm, hurt, scathe
Verb wound has 2 senses
- injure, wound - cause injuries or bodily harm to
--1 is one way to hurt
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
--2 is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot wound Sue
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