Scratch and Wound

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Scratch

Scratch noun - An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
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Wound is a synonym for scratch in graze topic. In some cases you can use "Wound" instead the word "Scratch" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like thing, cut, hurt.
Nearby Words: scratched, scratchy, scratching

Wound

Wound noun - An injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin).
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Scratch is a synonym for wound in thing topic. You can use "Scratch" instead the word "Wound" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as sore, hurt, lacerate, cause bodily damage.
Nearby Words: wounded, wounding

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How words are described

similar similar scratch similar wound
single single scratch single wound
visible visible scratch visible wound
simple simple scratch simple wound
Other adjectives: superficial, nasty, small, massive, serious, huge, little, tiny, minor, apparent, bloody, life-threatening.

Common collocations

arm scratch arm wound arm
people scratch people wound people
way scratch way wound way
throat scratch throat wound throat
Other words: player, armor.

Both words in one sentence

  • Secretly Dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet downplays the severity of his mortal wound at first: "Ay ay, a scratch, a scratch".
    Source: Secretly Dying
  • Wound That Will Not Heal Philoctetes was not caused pain by the scratch, but the never healing wound stank like a mountain of corpses, which was unbearable during a prolonged siege, as there was no way to escape it.
    Source: Wound That Will Not Heal
  • Only a Flesh Wound He assures his friends that the wound is "nothing but a cat scratch" (playing on the joke that Tybalt shares the same name with "The Prince of Cats" in another story).
    Source: Only a Flesh Wound
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