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# weal

«weal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a raised red or purple mark on the skin, left by a blow…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (weals)

### meaning for a pupil

A weal is a raised red or purple mark on the skin, left by a blow from a whip or stick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weal/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the mark left on a person's skin after a beating, often in old tales

### examples

- He beat her till she was marked with weals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weal/#x1)
- The whip left a red weal on his back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weal/#x2)
- She had weals on her arm after the fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weal/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «weal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/weal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.