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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bullet wound
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He died from a bullet wound to his chest.
a chest injury/wound
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He suffered serious chest injuries in the accident.
a knife wound
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She died from a single knife wound.
a war wound
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He still suffered pain from an old war wound.
badly hurt/injured/wounded
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Fortunately no one was badly hurt.
be killed/wounded in action (= killed or wounded while fighting )
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Four of her sons have been killed in action.
fatally injured/wounded
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Two officers were fatally injured in the explosion.
flesh wound
gunshot wounds
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gunshot wounds
heal the wounds/breach/division/rift
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Our main goal must be to heal the divisions in our society.
mortally wounded
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He regarded the mortally wounded man with no pity in his heart.
offend/wound sb’s sensibilities
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Avoid using words that might offend someone’s racial or moral sensibilities.
seriously/injured/hurt/wounded
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He was seriously injured in a car accident on Friday.
shrapnel wounds
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a soldier with shrapnel wounds in his chest
the dead and injured/wounded/dying
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Most of the dead and injured had been passengers on the bus.
wound up
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I was too wound up to sleep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lick your wounds
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The day after the election, many defeated conservatives were licking their wounds.
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At least we were in good hands while we licked our wounds.
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Eventually they would withdraw those investments, turn inward, lick their wounds, repair their factories, and bolster their stock.
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Feeling hurt, and wanting to lick her wounds in private, another sort of pride came to Fabia then.
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Real togetherness Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle.
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Sometimes they choose to lick their wounds in quiet or stay in a shut-down state, raging inward1y for years.
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The more time she had to lick her wounds, the better.
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We thought the murderous hordes were beaten and whimpering out in the jungles, licking their wounds.
mortal blow/danger/wound etc
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As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.
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Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.
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His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.
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Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.
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This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.
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Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.
rub salt into the wound
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Boro rubbed salt into the wound by scoring with their first genuine scoring attempt.
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To rub salt into the wound, they had Michael Mols sent off.
the wounded
time is a great healer/heals all wounds
twist/turn the knife (in the wound)
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Saints twisted the knife with a glorious try from Tony Sullivan, set up by Gary Connolly.
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The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis.
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A metal object was used to gouge a deep wound in the animal's forehead.
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Surgeons had to put three stitches in a deep wound in his shoulder.
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Every negative comment was a deep wound because he wanted everyone to love him.
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Police said the severely-shocked horse suffered three deep wounds which needed stitches.
gaping
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He suffered gaping wounds to his torso.
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Pressure points ... To close gaping wounds , use needle and thread.
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The pellet went right through the cat's neck and came out the other side, leaving a gaping wound .
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Vicious thugs had speared him leaving a gaping wound exposing the bone.
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In terms of a public health perspective, the decision certainly rubbed salt into the tobacco industry's already gaping wounds .
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Abruptly the full moon passed across the gaping wound in their roof and no longer shone directly into the room.
gunshot
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Dipendra, 29, died of gunshot wounds three days later without regaining consciousness.
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Each of them will testify that in his opinion death in each instance was caused by gunshot wounds in the head.
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Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared among black youths, while deaths from other forms of violence have remained level.
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Hospital officials said seven people were treated for gunshot wounds and that two were in serious condition.
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We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
head
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There was further bad news on the injury front both stand-offs received head wounds .
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Men with blood streaming from their head wounds stood defiantly hurling stones.
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I had head wounds and a beautiful black, discoloured eye, which was closed.
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He had head wounds and his throat had been cut.
large
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Paint any very large pruning wounds with pbi Arbrex.
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He had a large wound in the leg and a large wound in the arm and had bled to death.
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It was Les, he had a large wound in his chest, caused by a piece of shrapnel.
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He had a large wound in the leg and a large wound in the arm and had bled to death.
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The large majority of wounds seen in the A&E department belong to this category.
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Five days previously, a clothes drier had fallen on her leg and a large infected wound had developed.
minor
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Even those with the so called minor wounds are taken out of the situation as their appearance can affect the morale of the others.
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Two men had minor wounds , but the shrapnel cut up my radio gear.
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Six had minor gunshot wounds , the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm.
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In 1945, he came home with minor wounds and several medals.
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Examples of actual bodily harm include minor wounds , sprains, strains and bruises.
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Zahir Shah, who escaped with minor wounds .
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His victim had been lucky, escaping with only minor wounds .
mortal
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This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.
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His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.
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The Bloodthirster took advantage of Indraugnir's distraction to strike a mortal wound .
multiple
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Kelly, who was in her early 20s, was airlifted to hospital with multiple stab wounds but was dead on arrival.
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Victim had multiple stab wounds and was partially burned.
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All had multiple gunshot wounds except the 4-year-old, who suffered one wound to the chest, authorities said.
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Trauma centers more often are seeing bodies riddled by automatic-fire weapons or multiple stab wounds .
old
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Whatever the outcome, Marcos's death has opened old wounds .
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This is life as a mix of hard feelings, old wounds and some insights into how surprising the heart can be.
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Why do you want to probe into old wounds like this?
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Before the old wound Can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.
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They were both back and front, obviously bullet wounds; and there was another old wound high on his right arm.
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Both were men given to passionate intensities; and I believe both had taken up positions in response to old psychic wounds .
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All that had happened to Jenna was that an old , painful wound had reopened.
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But it didn't always heal old wounds .
open
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The caterers, Mr and Mrs Sharpstone, were the sort of people you could lay on an open wound .
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Mr Barraza wrapped the towel around my shoulders, like a medic covering an open wound .
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A man playing cards had an open wound in his forehead, blood dripping on to the crib board.
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Healthy people can contract necrotizing fasciitis, but people with chronic illnesses or open wounds are more susceptible.
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Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd's.
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I grew as red in the face as an open wound .
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In one case a woman waited three quarters of an hour with her child screaming with an open wound .
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It was a city of open wounds , of explosive politics and feelings.
serious
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But a postmortem found no evidence of serious wounds on her body.
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Vandenberg got his wish, although it took a serious wound to achieve it.
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The victim suffered serious head wounds and is stable in hospital.
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Another six Leeds fans were treated in hospital for injuries; two had serious stab wounds .
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It should be noted that a wound need not be a serious wound, yet the harm must be serious.
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He was taken to Broomfield Hospital with serious head wounds .
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Robert said that his brother had shot him without warning from about ten feet, inflicting a serious thigh wound .
severe
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There were six deep and severe scalp wounds .
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He took part in the battle for Madrid, which began on 7 November 1936, and received a severe head wound .
■ NOUN
bullet
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Some of them also had other bullet wounds .
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Because of the bullet wounds , the casket had been closed, which was a relief for him.
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Of the ten animals successfully darted, nine had buckshot or bullet wounds .
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In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound , and bled to death.
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There were two bullet wounds , one on the shoulder and a deeper one behind the head.
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Seven bullet wounds , or nine, or 13, according to various accounts.
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They were both back and front, obviously bullet wounds; and there was another old wound high on his right arm.
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Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort.
flesh
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Casualties amounted to one man killed, a few flesh wounds and two jeeps destroyed.
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The healthy kind is analogous to how the body treats a simple flesh wound .
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Even so, it's only a flesh wound and will heal in ten days or so.
healing
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This requires a clear understanding of the cellular and biochemical process of wound healing and the mechanisms of individual types of injury.
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Hydrcolloid dressings provide an ideal environment for wound healing .
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To do this, management protocols must be based on available knowledge on wound healing .
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An understanding of the basic mechanisms of wound healing is fundamental to the planning of care for each individual wound.
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Mrs Allen initially had little understanding of the importance of diet in wound healing .
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Does he or she have a significant past medical history which will influence good wound healing ?
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The micro-environment probably has the potential for balancing the timing of wound healing if left undisturbed.
knife
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Most had been shot; some had knife wounds .
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A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery.
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But Professor Burney said that the knife wound measures one and four-tenths inches across.
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Nor that Mrs Jenkins emerged from the confusion with a knife wound .
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We see a different connection, because of the knife wounds ... I shall never get any further in this force, lad.
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He was castrated and his body bore extensive cigarette burns and bullet and knife wounds .
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Police were called by neighbours and found 2 others, a woman and her son, suffering from knife wounds .
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Mrs Lundberg is in hospital with knife wounds , her son has been treated and released.
leg
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Suppose, however, that the superficial injury swells up and develops into an incapacitating leg wound .
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He was hospitalised and needed 28 stitches to a leg wound .
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He was released from hospital after treatment to a leg wound .
shrapnel
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The other victims-five women and two men-suffered shrapnel wounds .
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Ainslie, 56, suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs.
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He said 56 people had treatment at the hospital, mostly for shrapnel wounds .
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She incurred shrapnel wounds as well as third-degree burns.
stab
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The Tyrone man, a member of Belfast's gay community, died from multiple injuries and stab wounds .
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Victim had multiple stab wounds and was partially burned.
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Kelly, who was in her early 20s, was airlifted to hospital with multiple stab wounds but was dead on arrival.
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Trauma centers more often are seeing bodies riddled by automatic-fire weapons or multiple stab wounds .
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Another six Leeds fans were treated in hospital for injuries; two had serious stab wounds .
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The medical examiner testified that one of the stab wounds was forceful enough to break Downing ribs.
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A post-mortem examination showed he died from head injuries and stab wounds .
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Eighteen stone Sian bravely fought for her life but collapsed with nine stab wounds in her back.
war
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Dole overcame both rural poverty and, even more remarkably, war wounds that might have killed a lesser person.
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Oglethorpe does of course, with that old war wound .
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His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony.
■ VERB
bind
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In any case, the argument was quite remote from Lenin's preoccupation with binding up the wounds of national estrangement.
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Test-match broadcasting and his writing helped bind many personal wounds .
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I know you go out on patrol with them and bind up their wounds and so on.
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Stephen saw the white of a field dressing flap as Byrne began to bind the wounds .
cause
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The conduct may be either causing a wound or causing grievous bodily harm.
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Each of them will testify that in his opinion death in each instance was caused by gunshot wounds in the head.
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Parts of the opponent are frozen solid and turn into ice, causing terrible wounds or killing him outright.
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This is almost always caused by bad wound management.
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The spikes also have a 50% chance of causing infected wounds .
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The living targets will be tethered - then marksmen will shoot at different parts of their bodies to cause battlefield-type wounds .
clean
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Wearily, she sponged her torso and stomach, cleaning her wounds .
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Hospital officials cleaned and bandaged his wound and sent him home with a pair of crutches, Ross said.
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They put Catherine on a comfortable sofa, cleaned her wound and fed her with cakes and wine.
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I found the first-aid kit, cleaned and bandaged the wound , then sat with him on the porch.
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Those hands, she thought, one resting lightly on her thigh while the other cleaned the wound .
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Shelley cleaned the wound very thoroughly and bound it up with a clean dressing.
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I sent for a doctor, who cleaned her wounds .
cover
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He lost an eye at the Battle of the Jaws, and wears an iron patch to cover the wound .
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Mr Barraza wrapped the towel around my shoulders, like a medic covering an open wound .
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Her eyes were dull and she was covered in scars and wounds .
die
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It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds .
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When he died of wounds suffered in the Civil War, she was left on her own.
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He died of his wounds in Shifa hospital, they said.
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Now, aged seventy-three, he was dying of his wounds .
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One more man died of his wounds later.
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He died from a shotgun wound .
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The victim died of chest wounds .
dress
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In those days the warriors fought by day - in the open - and at night they dressed one another's wounds .
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I made a feeble gesture to dress his wound but realized he was dead.
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She used to carry pads of cotton wool to dress the wounds from the chafing.
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The next morning Benjamin dressed my wounds and we began our journey back to Calais.
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Often the client is seen by the most junior doctors, who rely on the sister's expertise to dress the wound .
heal
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Some survive, of course: time heals a few wounds , wounds a few heels.
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The faces, the words of dedication and the monument itself seemed to heal wounds .
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A: It is going to still be difficult to heal the wounds that the war left.
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To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis.
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Cupid was healed of his wound by now and longing for Psyche.
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But it didn't always heal old wounds .
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We started with the best of intentions, to heal the new wounds of an industrial, urban society.
inflict
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The hollow spur is connected to a venom gland situated behind the knee, and can inflict an agonising wound .
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This spine has a serrated edge and can inflict painful wounds .
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Even if they can't inflict any wounds they can still swamp him with weight of numbers.
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Robert said that his brother had shot him without warning from about ten feet, inflicting a serious thigh wound .
leave
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But won't they leave a wound ?
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After having been in the dumps about my personal life, I was hoping to leave those wounds behind.
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The pellet went right through the cat's neck and came out the other side, leaving a gaping wound .
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Vicious thugs had speared him leaving a gaping wound exposing the bone.
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The closure of this pit has left an open wound in their collective psyche.
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We left the wound open overnight to dry.
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I'd learned already that you had just to leave bullet wounds open for a few days.
lick
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The researchers injected formalin into animals' paws and watched how often they licked the wound .
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We thought the murderous hordes were beaten and whimpering out in the jungles, licking their wounds .
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Real togetherness Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle.
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Eventually they would withdraw those investments, turn inward, lick their wounds , repair their factories, and bolster their stock.
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The more time she had to lick her wounds , the better.
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Sometimes they choose to lick their wounds in quiet or stay in a shut-down state, raging inward1y for years.
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At least we were in good hands while we licked our wounds .
nurse
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Somewhere the sturdy beggars nursed their wounds and cursed.
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An angel came down from heaven and nursed his wounds .
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In the meantime left-handed Trevor is nursing the wounds he claims the nurse didn't detect.
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Or central defender Teale who limped out of White Hart Lane, also nursing a wound above his left eye.
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Those who stay behind spend their time looking for jobs, playing office politics or simply nursing their wounds .
receive
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He also received wounds to the abdomen.
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Less than one percent of stabbing victims received more than 50 wounds , he said.
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As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound .
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Wallace received the wound of which he shortly afterwards died.
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The other two, one 18 years old and the other 30, received thigh wounds .
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His leg was amputated within less than half an hour after his receiving the wound .
recover
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But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him.
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Both are recovering from their wounds .
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The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night.
rub
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Leeson was looking around for inspiration, a topic that didn't rub salt into wounds .
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It was rather like having a heated dagger thrust into the eyeball and twisted, then caustic soda rubbed in the wound .
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To rub salt into the wound , they had Michael Mols sent off.
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He just goes around there to rub dirt in their wounds .
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Boro rubbed salt into the wound by scoring with their first genuine scoring attempt.
suffer
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The victim suffered serious head wounds and is stable in hospital.
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Many of the survivors of both ships had suffered wounds .
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Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds.
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Sandoz said up to 14 million people, most of whom suffer from chronic wounds , could use the product.
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He'd suffered wounds to his head and chest.
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Ainslie, 56, suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs.
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The other victims-five women and two men-\#suffered shrapnel wounds .
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Until then she must see that her son was securely guarded in his chamber where he was still suffering from his wound .
treat
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The reports said two other women were being treated for gunshot wounds .
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The healthy kind is analogous to how the body treats a simple flesh wound .
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Both injured firemen were treated for slight wounds at Northampton General Hospital.
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Hospital officials said seven people were treated for gunshot wounds and that two were in serious condition.
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The injured man has been treated for shot wounds and is back home tonight.
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Dougal tried to distract himself from what he was doing by treating the wounds as a mental puzzle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barratt was taken to the hospital with stab wounds to his chest and neck.
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gunshot wounds
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He died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of his head.
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The wound was deep and needed eighteen stitches.
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The war left many veterans with deep emotional wounds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After having been in the dumps about my personal life, I was hoping to leave those wounds behind.
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Ainslie, 56, suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs.
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Dole overcame both rural poverty and, even more remarkably, war wounds that might have killed a lesser person.
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He died 27 October 1942 from wounds received the previous day in battle.
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I knew that something had been damaged between us, but nothing about how to heal the wound .
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These dead sheep had only puncture wounds.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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The drastic cuts come a week after Aldershot were wound up and rekindle fears for several Fourth Division clubs facing closure.
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That was why Frye wound up teaching attitude as much as grammar.
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Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
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He could have wound up dead.
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As a result, it wound up 41-21 for Miami, and it was never really that close.
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The company was compulsorily wound up after trading for 10 months with a deficiency of around £150,000.
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Bellcore wound up bidding on the job after all, along with three other outfits.
■ NOUN
car
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He wound the car window down and enjoyed the clear air and the sunlit view over the Perthshire countryside.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mortal blow/danger/wound etc
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As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.
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Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.
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His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.
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Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.
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This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.
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Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.
the wounded
time is a great healer/heals all wounds
twist/turn the knife (in the wound)
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Saints twisted the knife with a glorious try from Tony Sullivan, set up by Gary Connolly.
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The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wounding remark
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Police managed to wound one of the hijackers.
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The bullet wounded him in the shoulder.
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Two boys were on trial for wounding a sixteen-year-old girl with a revolver.