A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.
An injury to the person by which the skin is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the body, involving some solution of continuity.
To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
A break in the skin or other body tissues caused by injury or surgical incision (cut).
any break in the skin or an organ caused by violence or surgical incision
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
cause injuries or bodily harm to
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
a break in the structure of an organ or tissue caused by an external agent
a break in the tissues of the body
a cut or tear in the skin
a laceration (cut), abrasion (scrape), or puncture that breaks through the skin
an injury that causes either an internal or external break in body tissue
a physical injury to the body that causes disruption in body structure
a physical trauma where the skin is torn, cut or punctured
A break in the integrity of the skin; an injury to the body which causes a disruption of the normal continuity of the body structures.