| wound | | |
| n. (state) | 1. lesion, wound | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| ~ harm, hurt, injury, trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
| ~ raw wound | a wound that exposes subcutaneous tissue. |
| ~ stigmata | marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. |
| ~ abrasion, excoriation, scratch, scrape | an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off. |
| ~ gash, slash, slice, cut | a wound made by cutting.; "he put a bandage over the cut" |
| ~ laceration | a torn ragged wound. |
| ~ bite | a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person. |
| n. (event) | 2. combat injury, injury, wound | 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. |
| ~ personnel casualty, loss | military personnel lost by death or capture. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| n. (feeling) | 3. 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" |
| ~ distress, hurt, suffering | psychological suffering.; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" |
| n. (act) | 4. wound, wounding | the act of inflicting a wound. |
| ~ scathe, damage, harm, hurt | the act of damaging something or someone. |
| v. (body) | 5. injure, wound | cause injuries or bodily harm to. |
| ~ hurt | give trouble or pain to.; "This exercise will hurt your back" |
| ~ trample | injure by trampling or as if by trampling.; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" |
| ~ concuss | injure the brain; sustain a concussion. |
| ~ calk | injure with a calk. |
| ~ excruciate, torture, torment | subject to torture.; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" |
| ~ overstretch, pull | strain abnormally.; "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition" |
| ~ traumatise, traumatize, shock | inflict a trauma upon. |
| ~ maim | injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.; "people were maimed by the explosion" |
| ~ sprain, wrick, rick, wrench, twist, turn | twist suddenly so as to sprain.; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" |
| ~ subluxate | sprain or dislocate slightly.; "subluxate the hip" |
| ~ handicap, disable, incapacitate, invalid | injure permanently.; "He was disabled in a car accident" |
| ~ harm | cause or do harm to.; "These pills won't harm your system" |
| ~ run over, run down | injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle. |
| ~ fracture, break | fracture a bone of.; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" |
| ~ shoot, pip, hit | hit with a missile from a weapon. |
| ~ knife, stab | use a knife on.; "The victim was knifed to death" |
| ~ skin, scrape | bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of.; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell" |
| ~ bruise, contuse | injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of.; "I bruised my knee" |
| ~ graze | break the skin (of a body part) by scraping.; "She was grazed by the stray bullet" |
| v. (emotion) | 6. bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ affront, diss, insult | treat, mention, or speak to rudely.; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" |
| ~ arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ lacerate | deeply hurt the feelings of; distress.; "his lacerating remarks" |
| ~ sting | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.; "His remark stung her" |
| ~ abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
| adj. | 7. wound | put in a coil. |
| ~ coiled | curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals).; "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck" |
| intent | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. aim, design, intent, intention, purpose | an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" |
| ~ goal, end | the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.; "the ends justify the means" |
| ~ idea, mind | your intention; what you intend to do.; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces" |
| ~ cross-purpose | a contrary aim.; "at cross-purposes" |
| ~ final cause | (philosophy) the end or purpose of a thing or process. |
| ~ sake | the purpose of achieving or obtaining.; "for the sake of argument" |
| ~ view | purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'.; "he took the computer with a view to pawning it" |
| ~ will | a fixed and persistent intent or purpose.; "where there's a will there's a way" |
| n. (communication) | 2. intent, purport, spirit | the intended meaning of a communication. |
| ~ meaning, signification, import, significance | the message that is intended or expressed or signified.; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" |
| adj. | 3. absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped | giving or marked by complete attention to.; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" |
| ~ attentive | (often followed by `to') giving care or attention.; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor" |
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