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