Definition of rub salt in/into the wound
- It's bad enough that he was right and I was wrong, but the way he keeps talking about it is just rubbing salt in the wound.
: to move along the surface of a body with pressure : grate
: to fret or chafe with or as if with friction
: to cause discontent, irritation, or anger
: an unevenness of surface (as of the ground in lawn bowling)
: obstruction, difficulty
: something grating to the feelings (such as a gibe or harsh criticism)
: a crystalline compound NaCl that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry —called also common salt
: a substance (such as Glauber's salt) resembling common salt
: a mineral or saline mixture (such as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic
: to treat, provide, or season with common salt
: to preserve (food) with salt or in brine
: to supply (an animal) with salt
: saline, salty
: being or inducing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is suggestive of seawater — compare bitter, sour, sweet
: cured or seasoned with salt : salted
: lustful, lascivious
: an injury to the body (as from violence, accident, or surgery) that typically involves laceration or breaking of a membrane (such as the skin) and usually damage to underlying tissues
: a cut or breach in a plant usually due to an external agent
: a mental or emotional hurt or blow
: to cause a wound to or in
: to inflict a wound
: past tense and past participle of wind
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