Definition: the act of inflicting a wound
Main entry: combat injury, injury, wound
Definition: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Main entry: wound
Definition: a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
Usage: 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
Definition: an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Definition: cause injuries or bodily harm to
Main entry: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound, spite
Definition: hurt the feelings of
Usage: She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests; This remark really bruised my ego
Main entry: wound
Definition: put in a coil