wounding

wound ¹

 (wo͞ond)

n.

1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.

2. An injury to the feelings.

v. wound·ed, wound·ing, wounds

v.tr.

To inflict wounds or a wound on.

v.intr.

To inflict wounds or a wound: harsh criticism that wounds.

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[Middle English, from Old English wund; see wen- in Indo-European roots.]

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wound′ed·ly adv.

wound′ing·ly adv.

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wound ²

 (wound)

v.

Past tense and past participle of wind².

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wound ³

 (wound)

v. Music

A past tense and a past participle of wind³.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wounding - the act of inflicting a wound wound scathe, damage, harm, hurt - the act of damaging something or someone
Adj.	1.	wounding - causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty" stabbing harmful - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

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wounding

adjective hurtful, pointed, cutting, damaging, acid, bitter, slighting, offensive, distressing, insulting, cruel, savage, stinging, destructive, harmful, malicious, scathing, grievous, barbed, unkind, pernicious, caustic, spiteful, vitriolic, trenchant, injurious, maleficent wounding remarks about her appearance

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Translations

ранение

wounding

[ˈwuːndɪŋ] ADJ [remark, tone] → hiriente

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wounding

adj remark, tone → verletzend

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wounding

[ˈwuːndɪŋ] adj (blow, remark) → che lascia il segno

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