| 单词 | wound |
| 释义 | 1. verb form of 'wind'2. injury wound (waʊnd ) verb form of 'wind' B2 Wound is the past tense and past participle of wind2. wound (wuːnd ) injury Word forms: wounds , wounding , wounded 1. countable noun B2 A wound is damage to part of your body, especially a cut or a hole in your flesh, which is caused by a gun, knife, or other weapon. The wound is healing nicely. Six soldiers are reported to have died from their wounds. Synonyms: injury, cut, damage, hurt 2. verb B2 If a weapon or something sharp wounds you, it damages your body. A bomb exploded in a hotel, killing six people and wounding another five. [VERB noun] The driver of an evacuation bus was wounded by shrapnel. [VERB noun] The two wounded men were taken to a nearby hospital. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: injure, cut, hit, damage The wounded are people who are wounded. Hospitals said they could not cope with the wounded. They were told to carry their wounded and leave their dead. 3. countable noun A wound is a lasting bad effect on someone's mind or feelings caused by a very upsetting experience. [literary] She has been so deeply hurt it may take forever for the wounds to heal. 4. verb If you are wounded by what someone says or does, your feelings are deeply hurt. He was deeply wounded by the treachery of close aides. [be VERB-ed] My children have wounded me in the past. [VERB noun] Synonyms: offend, shock, pain, hurt wounded graded adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] I think she feels desperately wounded and unloved. 5. to lick your wounds phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy. The British team was returning home yesterday to lick its wounds after defeat by India. 6. to open/reopen old wounds phrase [VERB inflects] Something that opens old wounds or reopens old wounds reminds someone about an upsetting experience in the past which they would prefer to forget. Courts have been reluctant to reopen old wounds by trying crimes that are decades old. 7. to rub salt into the wound phrase If someone or something rubs salt into the wound, they make the unpleasant situation that you are in even worse, often by reminding you of your failures or faults. To rub salt in the wounds, the bankers got big bonuses as the rest of us struggled to make ends meet. Synonyms: make something worse, add insult to injury, fan the flames, aggravate matters Quotations: what wound did ever heal but by degrees?Othello Idioms: rub salt into the wound to make something even worse for someone, for example by reminding them of their failures or faults or by increasing their difficulties Compensation paid to criminals is rubbing salt into the wounds of victims of serious crimes. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: self-inflicted wound Now, though, the war is beginning to look like a self-inflicted wound. Times, Sunday Times (2014) That would be a terrible self-inflicted wound on the Church. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993) There were other self-inflicted wounds. Times, Sunday Times (2007) This division represents a little more than half of total revenues, the rest coming from endoscopy and advanced wound care. Times, Sunday Times Yesterday, however, there were welcome signs of recovery at the wound care specialist. Times,Sunday Times Its advanced wound care business raised revenue growth by 10 per cent, though, twice the market average. Times, Sunday Times It employs 17,500 people in 100 countries in divisions encompassing sports medicine, advanced wound care management and orthopaedics. Times,Sunday Times Its arthroscopic enabling technologies (tools used in procedures) business and wound care require continued nursing. Times,Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 创伤, 击伤 Japanese: 傷, 傷つける |
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