wounding

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wounding

noun woundings

  1. The act of inflicting a wound.
  2. An instance of being wounded. Who is there of mine goes to this war that I should grieve for his wounding or look for his return?

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of wound

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Closest in meaning: traumatic, harmful, stabbing, injury, hurt, harm, hurting, killing, assault, hitting, hit, calumny, casualty, anti-personnel, infection, battery

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@misc{wounding_2026,
  title = {wounding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wounding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}