deep wound
Serious penetrating injury
A deep wound penetrates well below the surface, reaching underlying tissue, muscle, or bone.
The phrase applies literally to injuries requiring serious medical attention: The knife left a deep wound in his shoulder.
Figuratively, a deep wound is lasting emotional damage—betrayal, loss, or trauma that doesn't heal quickly: The divorce left deep wounds that took years to fade.
- gashDeep, ragged incision
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
- slashAngled line or swipe
- cutSeverance or reduction
- bleedingBlood loss from injury
stitches · scar · battle scars · flesh · pain · trauma · bandage · infected · festering · raw · open · healing · tissue · knife · torn · bloody · throbbing · sutures
- skin injuriescut, scrape, scratch, bruise, burn
- woundsulcer, cuts, bedsore, bruises, bedsores
- fatal injuriesdecapitation, exsanguination, internal bleeding, broken neck, brain hemorrhage