woundern.
/ˈwuːndə/ One who or that which wounds.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful person > [noun]
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plaguea1450
wounder1483
pestilenta1530
harmer1583
wronger1591
griever1598
injurier1598
injurer1611
nuisancer1769
vitriolizer1882
menace1936
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > one who or that which wounds
wounder1483
wound1715
1483 Cath. Angl. 424/1 A Wounder, plagarius.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 1 Your father was my founder, till death became his wounder.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xvi. x. 487 The bloud of him that is wounded, reboundeth and slippeth into the wounder.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 179 Like a Bull, that beares A wounding iauelin; whom the wounder feares.
1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) i. 23 He was one of the feditori or wounders, i.e., one of the band of volunteers who..made the assault upon the enemy.
1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 57 Shells are unlovely killers and wounders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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