Meaning

1 senses
  1. A wound which pierces the skin (and/or exterior bones), so as to bare flesh and/or internal organs.

    Open wounds often cause heavy bleeding and grave danger of invasive infection.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. It hurts because it's an open wound.

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  2. It's still an open wound for me.

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  3. It's an open wound.

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  4. Let's not rip open old wounds.

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  5. Let's not open wounds from the past.

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Forms

plural: open wounds
Singularopen wound
Pluralopen wounds

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