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weal

noun
🔊/wiːl/
🔊/wiːl/
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  1. a painful, raised red mark on somebody’s skin where they have been hit （挨打造成的）红肿伤痕synonym welt
    • His back was covered in weals and bruises.他的背部布满伤痕累累。
    Word Originearly 19th cent.: variant of wale, influenced by obsolete wheal ‘suppurate’.