wounding 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of woundingnext
as in damaging

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wounding

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verb

present participle of wound
1
as in injuring
to cause bodily damage to an arrow had wounded the animal, but the vet was able to save it

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2
as in insulting
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in that callous comment really wounded me

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wounding
  1. damaging
  2. injuring
  3. fatal
  4. injurious
  5. lethal
  6. destructive
  7. harmful
  8. hurtful
Adjective
  • Triggering a damaging government shutdown would hurt families who are gathering to meet with their loved ones and endanger the basic services Americans from veterans to Social Security recipients rely on.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Some of the strongest evidence comes from lab studies using animals as well as what's already known about the damaging effects of chemicals added to plastics.
    Will Stone, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • The anti-immigrant rhetoric has been so acute that an anti-immigration far-right extremist in Germany — ironically himself an immigrant — just attacked a holiday market, killing at least five and injuring hundreds.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile, a car plowed through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday night, killing five people and injuring some 200 others.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of injuring
Adjective
  • Turner, 40, was sentenced in Kenton County Circuit Court on Monday to 12½ years in prison for her role in the August 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Seth Burns.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The report was released a day after a fatal school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, which left one student and one teacher dead, and six others injured, along with the suspect.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of fatal
Adjective
  • There are at least 15 other active cases focused on similar claims involving Tesla incidents where Autopilot or its FSD — Full Self-Driving (Supervised) — had been in use just before a fatal or injurious crash.
    Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In the Regulatory Reform Act of 2024, also known as Senate Bill 607, for injurious actions to public water systems and wastewater treatment facilities, those convicted will be ordered to pay a fine of $250,000 in addition to the Class C felony.
    Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of injurious
Adjective
  • What's New Kevin Underwood died by lethal injection in Oklahoma on Thursday in the nation's 25th and final execution of the year.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The execution of Kevin Ray Underwood by lethal injection, which was conducted on his 45th birthday, came after the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously rejected his request for clemency last week in the death of his young neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of lethal
Adjective
  • City sorely lack a reliable, destructive attacking presence when playing this way — something only made clearer when the other team bulldoze through them with, as happened on Saturday, a former City player.
    Thom Harris, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Hassan is charged with distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction in furtherance of the commission of a federal crime.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of destructive
Adjective
  • Targeting children with a harmful product and lying about its safety violates the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, said Skrmetti.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Although the kidneys should flush any harmful products out of the system, large quantities can be damaging, and could even lead to kidney failure.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of harmful
Adjective
  • Alongside the deeply hurtful acts of infidelity, abusive behavior and a lack of personal effort to keep the spark alive, there were three actions that stood out as most harmful to a relationship.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Surely somebody was on the inside, holding power, and yet everybody here felt iced out, their privilege and their victimhood irreducible against one another; each personal combination private, hurtful, and too tender to touch.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of hurtful
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