Though no one was killed, the city's nerves were rubbed raw.

Feelings could be rubbed raw in Japan as well, because of a major perception gap.

The skin on his hands had been rubbed raw.

Already, he could see, her fragile wrists had been rubbed raw.

Our nerves are rubbed raw by this silence, that is all.

"We had one guy get rubbed raw," he said of the group that tested the new chains.

He used his own bed to blanket their backs when they rubbed raw.

His palm was calloused now but even it had rubbed raw.

It's as if something has rubbed this point raw on his soul.

It hurt to swallow, and my throat felt rubbed raw.