wound
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5.4
- noun
- /wuːnd/
:
herida emocional
- My heart burned from the pain of the wound I saw inflicted on his son.
- old wounds
- lick one's wounds
- psychic wounds
You know, they say that time heals all wounds, and they are wrong.
- You know, they say that time heals all wounds, and they are wrong.
- It's OK for those past wounds to be too much to surmount.
- We are here to replicate those wounds, to finally heal them.
- Do you know what your wound is, where that came from?
- I acted on my wounds, still my desires.
- But Donald Trump was looking to heal a deeper wound, his ego.
- They turn your wounds into weapons to use on you.
- So, so my unique wound might be like, I'm not safe.
- What if this wound she describes is current?
- In the words of the great poet Rumi, the wound is where the light enters you.
- Every couple they have a background they have, they typically have wounds, they typically have trauma.
- They enter in the name of justice and usually end up with wounds even deeper than visible scars.
- So he goes on and he says the wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars behind.
- And this can propel you back to childhood wounds and triggers.
- I hope that you continue healing from this wound.
Examples
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You know, they say that time heals all wounds, and they are wrong.
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After the argument, she realized that his words had created a deep emotional wound that would take time to heal.
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Do you know what your wound is, where that came from?
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It's an old story coming up, an old hurt, an old wound, an old concern.
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What if this wound she describes is current?
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It's like a deep soul wound, and this is how we're healing our soul.
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A society often needs to allow some of its open wounds to heal so that it can move on.
Academic text (2013) -
Annie, I know that nothing can heal the wound that you have suffered.
Fiction book (1990) -
Jilly was too busy protecting some deep wound to be open to me now.
Fiction book (1990) -
For she believes the wounds these children bear can only be healed through love, and through an education of the heart.
Synonyms
149
1.0
A feeling of emotional or physical pain
21
4.2
A sharp feeling of sadness or hurt after an unkind act
14
2.8
Sadness and upset after someone says or does something unkind
5
5.0
A lasting hurt in your feelings after a very upsetting event
3
6.3
A deep hurt inside that stays after a painful event
A hurt feeling from disappointment, insult, or loss
Idioms
- Informal
1
6.6
To make someone's bad feelings worse by reminding them of a disappointment
Compounds
13
3.7
A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones
- Archaic
A wound that sends a British soldier home from the front, often in World War I
- Specialized
A direct current motor whose parts are connected in parallel to keep a steady speed when the load changes
- Specialized
A plant virus spread by small jumping insects that causes growths on plants
How Hurt
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wound meaning an emotional hurt uses the same old word wund for 'injury', because people spoke of hurts to the heart the same way as hurts to the body, so an emotional wound is a deep pain that can be slow to heal.