Word Finder - wounds

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An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.

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A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.

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It took a long time to get over the wound of that insult.

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An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.

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To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

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The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

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To hurt (a person's feelings).

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The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

His wounds began to close up before his eyes.

They carefully guarded their open wounds from any rough and painful contact.

She had no old wounds she was reopening.

Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.

She was the one who healed his wounds until he was old enough to do it on his own.

In the First World War, we learned to treat wounds by washing them with a germicide.

Poison is not poisonous after all, nor are any wounds fatal.

Talon's work on her arms pissed him off, but he hadn't considered the wounds were as recent as yesterday.

By midmorning, Deidre was free.  Katie grimaced as she wrapped the dismembered sleeves of her sweater around her wounds.  Blood soaked the sweater quickly, and she held it over her head.  Even before she stood, she felt woozy.  Deidre tested herself and limped a few feet.  Katie steadied her breathing to keep from dropping to her knees.

The Springs healed her wounds, but she did not awaken from death.

This may be due to frost, especially in thin-barked trees, and often occurs in beeches, pears, &c.; or it may result from bruising by wind, hailstones, gun-shot wounds in coverts, &c., the latter of course very local.

Moreover, the great contributions levied by Napoleon on the city, the plundering of its bank by Davoust, and the burning of its prosperous suburbs inflicted wounds from which the city but slowly recovered.

Though she was fatigued, her wounds were healed.

The wounds healed almost instantly.

No. Nursing his wounds, I suspect.

His wounds were too raw.

The early authorities represent the Stigmata not as bleeding wounds, the holes as it were of the nails, but as fleshy excrescences resembling in form and colour the nails, the head on the palm of the hand, and on the back as it were a nail hammered down.

Those speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved.

Blood trickled down both arms before her wounds healed themselves.

She took in his wounds again, unable to fathom why her father would chain him to the wall in their wine cellar.

The survival rate on wounds like that are zero.

The wounds healed as she watched, his magic caressing her from the inside in a way that—she was embarrassed to admit—was arousing.

She'll need to see a doctor in a couple of days for follow up shots, and you need to watch the bite wounds for signs of an infection.

I don't open wounds that are healed, Eden.

When, towards the end of his student-days in Berlin, he was acting as clinical assistant in the eye department of the Berlin Hospital, he noticed that in keratitis and corneal wounds healing took place without the appearance of plastic exudation.

A species of Haemadipsa of Ceylon attaches itself to the passer-by and draws blood with so little irritation that the sufferer is said to be aware of its presence only by the trickling from the wounds produced.

When it appeared that he was recovering from his wounds, Cesare had him murdered, but not apparently without provocation, for, according to the Venetian ambassador Cappello, the duke had tried to murder Cesare first.

As a secondary function we may recognize, in certain cases, the power of closing wounds, which results from the rapid coagulation of exuded latex in contact with the air.

Hales (1727I 733) discussed the rotting of wounds, cankers, &c., but much had to be done with the microscope before any real progress was possible, and it is easily intelligible that until the theory of nutrition of the higher plants had been founded by the work of Ingenhouss, Priestley and De Saussure, the way was not even prepared for accurate knowledge of cryptogamic parasites and the diseases they induce.

The Vertebrata come within the scope of our subject, chiefly as destructive agents which cause wounds or devour young shoots and foliage, &c. Rabbits and other burrowing animals injure roots, squirrels and birds snip off buds, horned cattle strip off bark, and so forth.

The phenomena described occur in all cases of cicatrization of wounds in naturee.g.

Frost-cracks, scorching of bark by sun and fire, &c., anc wounds due to plants which entwine, pierce or otherwise materially injure trees, &c., on a large scale.

Healing of Wounds, &c.Shattock, On the Reparatory Pro-i cesses which occur in Vegetable Tissues, Journ.

Wounds, &c.Marshall Ward, Timber and some of its Diseases, p. 210; Hartig, Diseases of Trees (London, 1894).

On September 3, 1904, the revolutionary general Saraiva died of wounds received in battle; and later in the year peace was declared.

Petroleum has very long been known as a source of light and heat, while the use of crude oil for the treatment of wounds and cutaneous affections, and as a lubricant, was even more general and led to the raw material being an article of commerce at a still earlier date.

After the archers had left him for dead, a devout woman, Irene, came by night to take his body away for burial, but, finding him still alive, carried him to her house, where his wounds were dressed.

The healing of wounds is brought about by similar processes to that seen in the evolution of an abscess.

Many workers following certain occupations show pigmented scars due to the penetration of carbon and other pigments from superficial wounds caused by gunpowder, explosions, &c.

Wounds caused by projectiles, sabres, etc, are the special subject of naval and military surgery.

The Homeric heroes themselves are represented as having considerable skill in surgery, and as able to attend to ordinary wounds and injuries.

These methods of treatment require to be modified for wounds in special situations and for those in which there is much contusion and laceration.

They are all more or less poisonous, paralysing their prey before, or during the act of swallowing; the poison-fangs standing so far back in the mouth, these snakes cannot easily inflict wounds with them on man; moreover, the poison is not very strong and not available in large quantities.

He took an active part in all the subsequent wars with the Cossacks and received more disfiguring wounds than any other commander.

Between this suburb and the town lies the park, in which is a monument to the poet Ewald Christian von Kleist, who died here of wounds received in the battle of Kunersdorf.

The first made some efforts to heal the wounds of his country; the second wasted the lives of his people in foreign wars against the Turks; and the third was the last Protestant elector of Saxony.

Prince Xaver, the elector's uncle, was appointed guardian, and he set himself to the work of healing the wounds of the country.

In some severe burns and wounds, aloe gel may actually impede healing.

The wounds that are seen in plastic surgery are flaps, skin grafts and split thickness graft donor sites.

Despite his wounds, Trooper Finney succeeded in getting the gunner to the waiting Spartan.