📚 verb • entry_id 62632
reopen old wounds
Meanings (ES + gloss)
renovar la herida
To cause the memory of past trauma to be recalled, resulting in renewed suffering.
Please, believe me—the last thing I want to do is reopen old wounds needlessly, but . . . but if it would finally bring a resolution to the whole mystery—"
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 sto…
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