Noun
open wound (plural open wounds)
A wound which pierces the skin (and/or exterior bones), so as to bare flesh and/or internal organs.
Open wounds often cause heavy bleeding and grave danger of invasive infection.
But I feel like it will be an open wound for a really long time and it might not ever get closed or healed.” Source: Internet
He then places a jack-in-the-box inside the open wound, which eventually bursts open and sends his opponent's head flying into the air. Source: Internet
Meeting trafficking survivors, religious sisters caring for victims and dozens of senior police officials in April, he called human trafficking “an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.” Source: Internet
That first terrible year was all scotch and bad decisions poured into my open wound. Source: Internet
"It would heal, a scab would form, it would fall off and an open wound would be there until a new scab would form. Source: Internet
Reflecting upon her approach, she said: “As an artiste, I am an open wound every time I go to a project, whether it is a show or an album or whatever it is that I decide that I need to do at that moment. Source: Internet