wound wounding | the act of inflicting a wound |
wrong legal injury damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
injury | wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted |
injury | an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage |
shot stab | informal words for any attempt or effort, he gave it his best shot, he took a stab at forecasting |
stab thrust knife thrust | a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument, one strong stab to the heart killed him |
wound tumor virus WTV | a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers |
injury accidental injury | an accident that results in physical damage or hurt |
wound injury combat injury | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat |
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 |
pang stab twinge | a sudden sharp feeling, pangs of regret, she felt a stab of excitement, twinges of conscience |
wound | 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 |
injury hurt harm trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
raw wound | a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue |
penetrating trauma penetrating injury | injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body |
whiplash whiplash injury | an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident) |
wound lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) |
injure wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to |
jab prod stab poke dig | poke or thrust abruptly, he jabbed his finger into her ribs |
stab jab | stab or pierce, he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife |
knife stab | use a knife on, The victim was knifed to death |
hurt wound injure bruise offend spite | hurt the feelings of, She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests, This remark really bruised my ego |
wound | put in a coil |
aroused wound up | brought to a state of great tension, all wound up for a fight |