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wound - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bruise, cut, damage, distress, gash, grief, harm, heartbreak, hurt, insult, laceration, lesion, pain, pang, shock, slash, torment, torture, trauma |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause bodily damage |
| Synonyms: | bruise, carve, clip*, cut, damage, ding*, gash, harm, hit, hurt, injure, irritate, lacerate, nick, ouch*, pierce, rough up*, scrape, scratch, slash, slice, stick, total*, contuse, open up |
| Antonyms: | aid, cure, heal, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental hurt |
| Synonyms: | bother, cut to the quick, distress, disturb, do in*, dump on, get*, grieve, hurt, hurt one's feelings, mortify, offend, outrage, pain, put down*, shake up*, sting, traumatize, trouble, upset |
| Antonyms: | appease, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, turn |
| Synonyms: | coil, convolute, cover, crook, curl, curve, deviate, distort, encircle, enclose, entwine, envelop, fold, furl, loop, meander, ramble, reel, roll, screw, slither, snake, spiral, swerve, twine, twist, weave, wrap, wriggle, zigzag, corkscrew, wreathe |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | afflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause or become hurt |
| Synonyms: | agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound, harrow |
| Antonyms: | aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of |
| Main Entry: | bring down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce or hurt |
| Synonyms: | abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, level, lower, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, slay*, tumble, undermine, upset, wound, KO, knock down, lay low, mow down, shoot down, throw down |
| Antonyms: | aid, encourage, help, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black and blue mark under skin |
| Synonyms: | black eye, black mark, blemish, contusion, discoloration, injury, mark, mouse*, swelling, wale, wound, boo-boo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break blood vessel; discolor |
| Synonyms: | batter, beat, black, blacken, blemish, crush, damage, deface, injure, mar, mark, pound, pulverize, wound, zing*, bang up, bung up, contuse, do a number on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bruise, injury |
| Synonyms: | bang, bump, cut, discoloration, knock, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
| Main Entry: | curly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | looping, forming ringlets |
| Synonyms: | coiled, convoluted, crinkly, crisp, frizzy, fuzzy, kinky, wavy, winding, wound, corkscrew, crimped, crimpy, crinkling, curled, curling, frizzed, looped, permed, spiralled, waved, waving |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | abuse, batter, bleach, blight, break, burn, contaminate, corrode, corrupt, crack, cripple, deface, defile, dirty, discolor, disfigure, disintegrate, dismantle, fade, gnaw, harm, hurt, impair, incapacitate, infect, injure, lacerate, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pollute, ravage, rot, ruin, rust, scorch, scratch, smash, split, spoil, stab, stain, tarnish, tear, undermine, vitiate, weaken, wound, wreck, wrong, bang up, scathe, tamper with, wear away, wreak havoc on |
| Antonyms: | benefit, bless, enhance, favor, fix, improve, mend, perfect, repair |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worry, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, be on one's case, bother, break, bug, burn up, depress, desolate, discombobulate, disquiet, disturb, do a number on, dog*, eat*, get to*, get*, give a hard time, grieve, harass, harry, hound, hurt, injure, irk, irritate, make it tough for, miff, nag, needle, nit-pick, oppress, pain, peeve, perplex, pester, pick on, plague, push, push buttons, rack, sadden, strain, strap, stress, tick off*, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, weigh, wound |
| Antonyms: | assist, calm, comfort, help, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fracture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, rupture |
| Synonyms: | breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, fissure, gap, opening, rent, rift, schism, splinter, split, wound, discontinuity, disjunction, displacement, fragmentation, mutilation, severance |
| Main Entry: | gash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut made by slicing |
| Synonyms: | cleft, furrow, gouge, incision, laceration, mark, nip, notch, rent, slash, slit, split, tear, wound |
| Main Entry: | gash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut by slicing |
| Synonyms: | carve, cleave, furrow, gouge, incise, injure, lacerate, lance, mark, nip, notch, pierce, rend, slash, slit, split, tear, wound |
| Main Entry: | gore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce |
| Synonyms: | gouge, impale, lance, perforate, puncture, spear, stab, stick, wound |
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | injure; cause evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blemish, bruise, cripple, crush, damage, discommode, get, hurt, impair, inconvenience, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mess up*, misuse, molest, mutilate, nick, outrage, prejudice, put down, ruin, sabotage, sap*, shatter, shock, spoil, stab, tarnish, total, trample, tweak*, undermine, vandalize, vitiate, wing*, wound, wreck, wrench, wrong, zing*, dilapidate, disserve, do violence to, dump on, ill-treat, incommode, louse up, muck up*, scathe, traumatize |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, benefit, care, fix, help, improve, mend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury; damage |
| Synonyms: | ache, blow, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, suffering, wound, wrong, black and blue, boo-boo, ill-treatment, soreness |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy |
| Main Entry: | incision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut, slit |
| Synonyms: | cleavage, cleft, dissection, gash, groove, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, pierce, slash, stab, wound, carving |
| Main Entry: | injure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aggrieve, batter, blemish, blight, break, contort, cripple, cut up, damage, deface, deform, disable, disfigure, distort, distress, do in*, foul, foul up, grieve, impair, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pain, pique, prejudice, ruin, shake up, spoil, sting, tarnish, torment, torture, total, undermine, vitiate, wax, weaken, wound, wrong, draw blood, hack up |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, cure, fix, heal, help, mend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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