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trauma

Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Bleeding 76% connected

of Bleed

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bruise 76% connected

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Contusion 76% connected

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

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Dislocation 76% connected

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Frostbite 76% connected

The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.

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Hemorrhage 76% connected

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.

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Lesion 76% connected

A hurt; an injury.

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Pinch 76% connected

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

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Sting 76% connected

Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Wale 76% connected

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

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Weal 76% connected

The mark of a stripe. See Wale.

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Welt 76% connected

That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it

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Wheal 76% connected

A pustule; a whelk.

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Whiplash 76% connected

The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Wrench 76% connected

Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Shock 74% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Traumatic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.

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Traumatic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds.

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Harm 92% connected

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

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Hurt 92% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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Injury 92% connected

Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…

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