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单词 wounding
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Definition of wounding in English:

wounding

adjective ˈwuːndɪŋˈwundɪŋ
  • 1Causing physical injury.

    crossbows and deadly wounding darts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A wounding strike from this man could mean instant death.
    • The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".
    • The military response was swift and wounding.
    • On the way he staged a wounding attack on himself.
    • But no sooner had Porrus delivered a wounding blow to the knight's left arm than the knight returned a blow to his shield.
    1. 1.1 Causing harm to a person's feelings or reputation.
      a wounding description of their mother
      most wounding to her was the loss of her independence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Perhaps it is the emotionally wounding proximity of him that brings back suppressed memories of the past.
      • He is more correct than he may have imagined, his words betraying an even more wounding significance.
      • She is surprised by the intelligence into a wounding tactlessness.
      • He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
      • When the daughters accidentally humiliate her at the dinner table by breezily offering up a wounding description of how they see their mother, Sarandon's wordless reaction is an example of superb screen acting.

Derivatives

  • woundingly

  • adverbˈwuːndɪŋliˈwundɪŋli
 
 

Definition of wounding in US English:

wounding

adjectiveˈwo͞ondiNGˈwundɪŋ
  • 1Causing physical injury.

    crossbows and deadly wounding darts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The military response was swift and wounding.
    • But no sooner had Porrus delivered a wounding blow to the knight's left arm than the knight returned a blow to his shield.
    • The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".
    • On the way he staged a wounding attack on himself.
    • A wounding strike from this man could mean instant death.
    1. 1.1 Causing harm to a person's feelings or reputation.
      a wounding description of their mother
      most wounding to her was the loss of her independence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was never at a loss for the wounding remark, the inappropriately coarse joke, the cold put-down.
      • When the daughters accidentally humiliate her at the dinner table by breezily offering up a wounding description of how they see their mother, Sarandon's wordless reaction is an example of superb screen acting.
      • He is more correct than he may have imagined, his words betraying an even more wounding significance.
      • She is surprised by the intelligence into a wounding tactlessness.
      • Perhaps it is the emotionally wounding proximity of him that brings back suppressed memories of the past.
 
 
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