weal
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- noun
- /wiːl/
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roncha
- He felt a sharp pain where the weal had formed after the allergic reaction to the medication.
- a red weal
- weal marks
Examples
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Caidrun fingered the weals already forming on her skin.
Fiction book (1993) -
Tamborel clenched his fists, recalling the scene at the well: Caidy's angry face, the bright red weals across her cheek.
Fiction book (1993) -
Inman pulled out his collar and showed the angry weal at his neck.
Fiction book (1997) -
The pigs are covered in great big red weals and welts of bruises.
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The blows raise blunted weals on Catherine's arm and hips.
Fiction book (1996) -
He gripped her neck, pushing her head awkwardly to the side to reveal the weal marking her skin.
Fiction book (2002) -
Larry rocked back and forth and sucked his teeth, feeling fat weals already bubbling on his ankle.
Fiction book (1994) -
The stall was gone now, and the only signs of it were a thick, healing pink weal across the back of his neck and some hook-shaped slashes where the tin collar had cut him each time he hung the prongs up, running through the jungle.
Fiction book (1994) -
They saw the scars then, the white weals across his back, and Rachel said tightly, "Man's inhumanity to man hasn't abated, I see."
Fiction book (1990) -
The doctor examined the weal on her arm and explained it was a common reaction to an insect bite.
Synonyms
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6.5
A raised red mark on the skin caused by a hit, pressure, or an allergy
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9.0
A small raised red or pale bump on the skin that is often itchy
A raised, red, swollen bump on the skin after a hit or sting
A raised red mark on the skin caused by a hit or an allergy
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word weal for a raised red mark on the skin comes from an old English root wæl meaning 'wound' or 'mark', and it is like the common word welt, which also means a raised mark. So a weal is the red, swollen spot you get after a hit or a bite.