ठेस का लाक्षणिक प्रयोग।

उसके व्यवहार से मेरी गरिमा को ठेस लगी।
आघात, चोट, झटका, ठसका, ठेस, धक्का

A figurative injury (to your feelings or pride).

He feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound.
Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound--that he will never get over it.
wound