Usually means: Revive painful memories or feelings.
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  1. reopen old wounds: Merriam-Webster
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Definitions from Wiktionary (reopen old wounds)

verb:  (idiomatic) To cause the memory of past trauma to be recalled, resulting in renewed suffering.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reopen, old, wound.

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