woundable
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a word derived from
wound.
woundnounan injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
Example Sentences
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Anyone who is woundable by an occasional dip in prices isn’t rich enough to count.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 13, 2015
He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that—hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
I've often heard Bart say that men's feelings are very woundable at forty, while at twenty-five a hurt closes up like water after a pebble has been dropped in it.
From The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright