accident
accident
/ˈæksədənt/
nounClick to see examples
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Tooth loss was common among our early ancestors due to accidents, infection, and disease.
That year the 24-year-old woman lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident.
While she was recovering from her accident, she worried about her future.
to bang
to bang
/ˈbæŋ/
verbClick to see examples
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Her neighbor is banging on the door.
Banging your fist on your child’s tiny arm is not a joke.
Yell at it, bang my head against something, hand, or sometimes head.
banged up
banged up
/bˈæŋɡd ˈʌp/
adjectiveClick to see examples
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I'm pretty banged up out here and I could really use your help!
battered
battered
/ˈbætɝd/
adjectiveClick to see examples
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Amazon was the last dagger in an already battered brand.
Her battered body was discovered six days later.
And a mentally battered Kelly picks up the scraps Nicki was smart enough to leave behind.
bite
bite
/ˈbaɪt/
nounClick to see examples
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When a female mosquito bites a human, the mosquito draws off blood.
Well, she has her two top incisors, but she just does a gummy bite.
I wanna say it has some bite to it.
black eye
black eye
/blˈæk ˈaɪ/
nounClick to see examples
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We wanted to look at horrible dark eyes, like the black eyes of a shark.
So I go to rehab, and I have a black eye from the fight, you know?
Sensing a chance to give Napoleon a black eye, the British decided to intervene.
to bleed
to bleed
/ˈbɫid/
verbClick to see examples
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It's bleeding badly!"
And for a few weeks I had been bleeding from bits that you shouldn't bleed from.
Now, the city of Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee, and athletes themselves are bleeding cash.
blister
blister
/ˈbɫɪstɝ/
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This pointless battle results in the redness, itching, and oozing blisters known as contact dermatitis.
His blisters are making me gag.
- Ooh, goody, popping blisters is my favorite part.
to break
to break
/ˈbɹeɪk/
verbClick to see examples
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The ropes often broke and the lifts fell to the ground.
How did he break it?'
He kicked it too hard, and it broke the window of a house and fell inside.
break
break
/ˈbɹeɪk/
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A small break in a pipe can eventually create a sinkhole that swallows whatever stood above it.
This magma pushed in along a break where two plates of Earth's crust meet.
The ropes often broke and the lifts fell to the ground.
broken
broken
/ˈbɹoʊkən/
adjectiveClick to see examples
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When they got to the trees, they found five sheep with broken necks, but no monster.
Oh oh oh oh ♪ ♪ When they're too broken to know what they put you through ♪ ♪
but I wanted to try to figure out how to make a video that wasn't a broken record.
to bruise
to bruise
/ˈbɹuz/
verbClick to see examples
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If you have really high tendency towards bruising, it's nice to take oral arnica.
And so, you just get bumps and bruises we you do these things.
And finally, after two bruising days, the man from Missouri wound up on the ticket.
bruise
bruise
/ˈbɹuz/
nounClick to see examples
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There's significant bruises.
" The only issue with Botox is if you get a bruise, but there really isn't downtime.
That that these really are bumps and bruises between atoms, that it's probabilistic and it's messy
to bump
to bump
/ˈbəmp/
verbClick to see examples
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It’ll stay there, but if something bumps it, down it goes.
It’ll bump the regions around it, and they’ll drop.
Those little molecules and atoms bumping around against your hands as you wave them around.
bump
bump
/ˈbəmp/
nounClick to see examples
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They said it was impossible to know a person's personality by analyzing head bumps.
If so, a doctor could learn about a person's behavior by analyzing these bumps.
He could analyze the location and size of the bumps on the skull.
burn
burn
/ˈbɝn/
nounClick to see examples
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Hospitals use it in transfusions to treat burns, liver failure, and more recently, COVID-19.
We have what we call like a slow burn in teaching.
Or he had his day's work burned onto a CD.

burnt
burnt
/ˈbɝnt/
adjectiveExamples
to concuss
to concuss
/kənkˈʌs/
verbClick to see examples
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Weiss, I think she's concussed!
I've never been concussed by light, but--

concussed
concussed
/kənkˈʌst/
adjectiveExamples
concussion
concussion
/kənˈkəʃən/
nounClick to see examples
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Each year in the United States, players of sports and recreational activities receive between 2.5 and 4 million concussions.
This combination of events causes a concussion.
Luckily, the majority of concussions fully heal and symptoms disappear within a matter of days or weeks.
contusion
contusion
/kənˈtuʒən/
nounClick to see examples
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A lot of contusions, broken bones.
I have contusions, lacerations and internal bleeding.
to cripple
to cripple
/ˈkɹɪpəɫ/
verbClick to see examples
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The pandemic has crippled many industries, but restaurants have had an especially challenging year.
And thousands of small businesses crippled by the pandemic are not represented in the stock market at all.
Dinkins had inherited a city in turmoil, crippled by crime, crack, homelessness and corruption scandals.
crippling
crippling
/ˈkɹɪpəɫɪŋ/, /ˈkɹɪpɫɪŋ/
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This shutdown is really crippling.
First, crippling Sony's internal systems, then leaking five Sony movies online.
So did Albert grow up with a crippling phobia of fur and beards?
to cut
to cut
/ˈkət/
verbClick to see examples
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Who do you think cut that man's hair?
He knew that surgery was dangerous Patients often developed infections where their skin was cut.
A shoe factory, for example, once needed many workers to cut leather and sew the pieces together.
cut
cut
/ˈkət/
nounClick to see examples
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But not everything makes the cut.
Who do you think cut that man's hair?
He knew that surgery was dangerous Patients often developed infections where their skin was cut.

dead leg
dead leg
/dˈɛd lˈɛɡ/
nounExamples
to dislocate
to dislocate
/ˈdɪsɫoʊkeɪt/
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The pressure of more powerful sounds can even dislocate the ossicular chain or burst an eardrum.
It's jaw is dislocated.
and I thought he was going to dislocate a hip from swishing so hard.
electric shock
electric shock
/ɪlˈɛktɹɪk ʃˈɑːk/
nounClick to see examples
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He decided to demonstrate how he could stop a turkey’s heart with electric shock...
Remember that woman who got electric shocks for taking too long in the bathroom?
There are real-world animals that can generate electric shocks - in fact, this ability has independently evolved six times!

first-degree burn
first-degree burn
/fˈɜːstdɪɡɹˈiː bˈɜːn/
nounExamples
fracture
fracture
/ˈfɹækʃɝ/, /ˈfɹæktʃɝ/
nounClick to see examples
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OK I couldn't even tell which fracture happened first.
Both fractures happen at what seems to be the same time.
Let's watch another one and see if vibration has anything to do with that second fracture.
to fracture
to fracture
/ˈfɹækʃɝ/, /ˈfɹæktʃɝ/
verbClick to see examples
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but it was also fracturing amid waves of ethnic feeling.
Whether it's going to fracture?
It's less likely to fracture.
to graze
to graze
/ˈɡɹeɪz/
verbClick to see examples
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Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the fields.
Farmers even grazed cattle in them, believing graveyard grass made for sweeter milk.
You can see Rami's thigh is grazed by the bullet.
harm
harm
/ˈhɑɹm/
nounClick to see examples
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Things like that do way more harm than they do good.
Self harm was indeed a thing.
And when I was 21, the self harm, it did happen.
hernia
hernia
/ˈhɝniə/
nounClick to see examples
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We're talking about belly-button hernias.
You develop a hernia.
When I was recovering from my hernia surgery, fun fact, I had an inguinal hernia.

herniated disc
herniated disc
/hˈɜːnɪˌeɪɾᵻd dˈɪsk/
nounExamples
to hit
to hit
/ˈhɪt/
verbClick to see examples
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When it's his turn at bat, he hits the ball into the outfield.
SUMMER FUN UNDER SCRUTINY When summer hits, it's amusement park season.
Harry didn't stop his car at some traffic-lights when they were red, and he hit another car.
to hobble
to hobble
/ˈhɑbəɫ/
verbClick to see examples
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I hobbled the male side together
Freddie’s grand plan was to hobble France and gobble up Saxony for Berlin.
And then she hobbled out of this bodega.
