to wound
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5.7
- verb
- /wuːnd/
:
herir
- "How do you know what I feel?" Her harsh tone wounded his soul.
- wound someone's pride
- deeply wounded
- wound someone's spirit
We feel too much and too deeply and we wound too easily.
- We feel too much and too deeply and we wound too easily.
- And each time we talk badly about ourselves, we wound ourselves.
- But they have a diminished sense of home that wounds them.
- I think some people give criticism to wound.
- It scores lawyers prefer to fight with our words, not our fists, and wound you with a pen rather than a sword.
Examples
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Then there was Allison, psychologically wounded by Tony, as she, Pat, had been wounded.
Fiction book (1990) -
Each harsh word can wound someone deeply, leaving lasting emotional scars.
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We feel too much and too deeply and we wound too easily.
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And each time we talk badly about ourselves, we wound ourselves.
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You've really wounded me this time.
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You have wounded me.
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Interestingly, Johnson finds alienation among the wounded not related to the severity or cause of the injury.
Academic text (1992) -
His insensitive comments truly wounded her feelings, causing her to withdraw from the group.
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When you criticize your friends without tact, you wound them far more than you realize.
Synonyms
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1.0
Make someone suffer physical or emotional pain
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2.8
Cause a person to feel hurt, upset and angry because of your words or actions
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2.5
Hurt someone's feelings by saying or doing something
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4.9
To make someone feel sad or upset
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3.4
To make someone very sad because of love or disappointment
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4.2
To hurt someone's feelings or pride
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4.9
To deliberately hurt or annoy someone to upset them
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3.3
To feel sharp emotional pain after someone says something hurtful
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7.6
To deeply hurt someone's feelings
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7.9
To hurt someone's feelings very deeply
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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6.6
To make someone's bad feelings worse by reminding them of a disappointment
Compounds
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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 as a verb meaning to hurt someone's feelings also comes from the old wund meaning 'injury', since words can 'cut' or damage a person inside, which explains why to wound someone is to cause lasting emotional pain.