wound (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 12
def a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
examples he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound
deep in her breast lives the silent wound
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
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Hypernym distress, hurt, suffering
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Hyponym distress, hurt, suffering

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