noun
an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
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noun
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
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noun
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
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- 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
noun
the act of inflicting a wound
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verb
cause injuries or bodily harm to
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verb
hurt the feelings of
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Examples
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
- This remark really bruised my ego