wound

Adjective

• put in a coil

Noun

• the act of inflicting a 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
    

• a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

Verb

• hurt the feelings of
  • She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
    
  • This remark really bruised my ego
    

• cause injuries or bodily harm to

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wounding , injury , combat injury , lesion , hurt , injure , bruise , offend , spite