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the act of inflicting a wound a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat 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--t any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision put in a coil coiled cause injuries or bodily harm to hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego" |
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