- stabbing, traumatic, wounding - causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
Antonym: harmless (indirect, via harmful)
- wound, wounding - the act of inflicting a wound
--1 is a kind of damage, harm, hurt, scathe
Derived form: verb wound1
- injure, wound - cause injuries or bodily harm to
--1 is one way to hurt
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun wound2, noun wound4, noun wounding1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
--2 is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot wound Sue