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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bruise, cut, damage, distress, gash, grief, harm, heartbreak, hurt, insult, laceration, lesion, pain, pang, shock, slash, torment, torture, trauma |
| Main Entry: | wound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause mental hurt |
| Synonyms: | bother, cut to the quick, distress, disturb, do in, dump on, get*, grieve, hurt, hurt one's feelings, mortify, offend, outrage, pain, put down*, shake up, sting, traumatize, trouble, upset |
| Antonyms: | appease, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, turn |
| Synonyms: | coil, convolute, corkscrew, cover, crook, curl, curve, deviate, distort, encircle, enclose, entwine, envelop, fold, furl, loop, meander, ramble, reel, roll, screw, slither, snake, spiral, swerve, twine, twist, weave, wrap, wreathe, wriggle, zigzag |
| Notes: | wind moves horizontally, while a draft moves vertically |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
-verbs
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
-adjectives
blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary.
-phrases
"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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| Main Entry: | afflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause or become hurt |
| Synonyms: | agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound |
| Notes: | afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with' |
| Antonyms: | aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury from gripping, tearing |
| Synonyms: | chaw, chomp, gob, itch, laceration, nip, pain, pinch, prick, smarting, sting, tooth marks, wound |
| Main Entry: | bite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grip or tear with teeth |
| Synonyms: | champ, chaw, chaw on, chew, chomp, clamp, crunch, crush, cut, eat, gnaw, hold, lacerate, masticate, munch, nibble, nip, pierce, pinch, rend, ruminate, seize, sever, snap, take a chunk out of, taste, tooth, wound |
| Main Entry: | bring down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce or hurt |
| Synonyms: | KO, abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, knock down, lay low, level, lower, mow down, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, shoot down, slay, throw down, tumble, undermine, upset, wound |
| Antonyms: | aid, encourage, help, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black and blue mark under skin |
| Synonyms: | black eye, black mark, blemish, boo-boo, contusion, discoloration, injury, mark, mouse, swelling, wale, wound |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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