n. a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride); "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

n. the act of inflicting a wound

n. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

v. cause injuries or bodily harm to

v. hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

adv. in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce"

adv. to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"

adj. put in a coil

n. an open skin infection

n. a damage or loss

v. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"

v. destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"

v. suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"

v. cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

v. injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"

v. make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"

v. make confused or perplexed or puzzled

v. irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit"

v. subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation; "vex the subject of the death penalty"

v. sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation

v. test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!"

adj. in the shape of a coil

adj. rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal"

adj. rolled or coiled together; "a convoluted shell"

adj. drawn up into a ball; "she lay curled up in a big armchair"

adj. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured

adj. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward

adj. like the pattern basic to the human fingerprint

adj. wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined around her fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the edges"