wounding

Other forms: woundings

Definitions of wounding
  1. noun
    the act of inflicting a wound
    synonyms: wound
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    type of:
    damage, harm, hurt, scathe
    the act of damaging something or someone
  2. adjective
    causing physical or especially psychological injury
    “wounding and false charges of disloyalty”
    synonyms: stabbing
    harmful
    causing or capable of causing harm
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