Definition: the act of inflicting a wound
Synonyms: combat injury, injury, wound
Definition: a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Similar words: personnel casualty, loss
Definition: military personnel lost by death or capture
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: hurt, distress, suffering
Definition: psychological suffering
Usage: the death of his wife caused him great distress
Definition: an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Similar words: trauma, hurt, injury, harm
Definition: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Definition: cause injuries or bodily harm to
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: kindle, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, arouse, raise, provoke
Definition: call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Usage: arouse pity; raise a smile; evoke sympathy
Synonyms: wound
Definition: put in a coil
Similar words: coiled
Definition: curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals)
Usage: a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on the deck