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The phrase "adding insult to injury " (making a bad situation worse) can be intentional or coincidental. However, the idiom "rubbing salt in the wound" usually means deliberately making something painful even more painful (as salt would be to broken skin).

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What is another phrase for rubbing salt in a wound?

Meaning compounding a negative event, one could also say; "Adding insult to injury" or "to make a bad thing worse"


What is an example of an injury that would be considered a superficial injury?

Abrasion: caused by rubbing or scraping the skin against a rough or hard surface. Typically, the wound is superficial, and the bleeding is limited.


What heteronym means an injury or to coil something?

Wound. As in you wound something around (coiled), or you received a wound (an injury.)


What does the phrase ''rub salt in an open wound'' mean?

To make an injury or insult worse, like how salt hurts open wounds. Have you ever cut your anything and walked into the ocean?


What does a stabbing pain to a wound or injury mean?

I think it means if the wound or injury is throbbing or stinging.


What is the difference between a wound and an injury?

The difference between a wound and an injury is that, when injured the skin is torn while a wound is what is formed after the skin is torn.


What type of wound does scrapping and rubbing cause?

Abrasion


What are the two meanings of wound?

wound means when you have hurt yourself (injury).


What is wound or injury?

wound is less serious than an injury. A wound can be treated with a first aid kit, while an injury would be best treated by doctors. Plus, injuries take longer time to fully heal.


What is a synonym for welt?

wound, injury


What are two meaning for wound?

Wound means to inflict and injury on someone or to have an injury to living tissue caused by a cut or other impact.


What is a wound?

A wound is a place where an injury has happened. It can be caused due to various reasons.