Noun
- 1. wound, lesion, injury, hurt, harm, trauma
- usage: an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- 2. wound, injury, combat injury, personnel casualty, loss
- usage: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- 3. wound, distress, hurt, suffering
- usage: 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
- 4. wound, wounding, damage, harm, hurt, scathe
- usage: the act of inflicting a wound
Verb
- 1. injure, wound, hurt
- usage: cause injuries or bodily harm to
- 2. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite, arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
- usage: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
Verb
- 1. injure, wound, hurt
- usage: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
- 2. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite, arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
- usage: extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"; "the path twisted through the forest"
- 3. weave, wind, thread, meander, wander, travel, go, move, locomote
- usage: arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
- 4. wind, twist, curve, be
- usage: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
- 5. wind, wrap, roll, twine, move, displace
- usage: coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
- 6. scent, nose, wind, smell
- usage: form into a wreath
- 7. wind, wind up, tighten, fasten
- usage: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
Adjective
- 1. wound, coiled (vs. uncoiled)
- usage: put in a coil
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