Adjective wounding has 1 sense
  1. 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)
,Noun wounding has 1 sense
  1. wound, wounding - the act of inflicting a wound
    --1 is a kind of damage, harm, hurt, scathe
    Derived form: verb wound1
,Verb wound has 2 senses
  1. injure, wound - cause injuries or bodily harm to
    --1 is one way to hurt
    Derived forms: noun wound2, noun wound4, noun wounding1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. 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
,
TOP