wound 3

noundomain: emotion
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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Definition

a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

  • 1.he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound
  • 2.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
  • 3.deep in her breast lives the silent wound
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