wound

1. An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) (synset 114322317)
   is a type of: harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
   subtypes:

   • raw wound - a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue
   • stigmata - marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
   • abrasion, excoriation, scrape, scratch - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
   • cut, gash, slash, slice - a wound made by cutting
   • laceration - a torn ragged wound
   • bite - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
   same as: lesion
2. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat (synset 107354849)
   referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
   is a type of: loss, personnel casualty - military personnel lost by death or capture
   subtypes:

   • blighty wound - a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad
   • flesh wound - a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones
   same as: combat injury, injury
3. A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride) (synset 107512262)
   "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"
   is a type of: distress, hurt, suffering - psychological suffering
4. The act of inflicting a wound (synset 100404604)
   is a type of: damage, harm, hurt, scathe - the act of damaging something or someone
   same as: wounding

1. Put in a coil (synset 302325885)
   similar to: coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)

1. Cause injuries or bodily harm to (synset 200069650)
   is a type of: hurt - give trouble or pain to
   subtypes:

   • trample - injure by trampling or as if by trampling
   • concuss - injure the brain; sustain a concussion
   • calk - injure with a calk
   • excruciate, torment, torture - subject to torture
   • overstretch, pull - strain abnormally
   • shock, traumatise, traumatize - inflict a trauma upon
   • maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
   • rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick - twist suddenly so as to sprain
   • subluxate - sprain or dislocate slightly
   • disable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid - injure permanently
   • harm - cause or do harm to
   • run down, run over - injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
   • break, fracture - fracture a bone of
   • hit, pip, shoot - hit with a missile from a weapon
   • knife, stab - use a knife on
   • scrape, skin - bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
   • bruise, contuse - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
   • graze - break the skin (of a body part) by scraping
   same as: injure
2. Hurt the feelings of (synset 201797206)
   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
   is a type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   subtypes:

   • affront, diss, insult - treat, mention, or speak to rudely
   • lacerate - deeply hurt the feelings of; distress
   • sting - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
   • abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
   same as: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite

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