reopen old wounds

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause the memory of past trauma to be recalled, resulting in renewed suffering. idiomatic
    — When I had completed The Difficult Flowering of Surinam in 1976, Fred Ormskirk, the late NPS historian and radio commentator, suggested I delete a number of the more unpleasant stories in the book, claiming that it was better to let go of the past and not reopen old wounds.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reopen, old, wound.
    — Old wounds and ulcers reopen and ulcerate.

词形变化

reopens old wounds present,singular,third-person reopening old wounds participle,present reopened old wounds participle,past reopened old wounds past
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