wound
noun
an 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.
woundingly
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a word derived from
wound.
Example Sentences
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Mother Naomi and father Sandy, despite impressive careers and “enough money,” proved terribly, woundingly wrong for each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
“They can’t expand fast enough,” said the director Alex Ross Perry, whose work is described on the Metrograph website as “a series of woundingly articulate films, by turns sad, self-flagellating and scabrous.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2019
On the contrary, he is allotted only flickering glimpses, which will accost him unpredictably and, often, woundingly.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2013
Even more woundingly they stated they believe Riddle may also have had more doubts had he seen the FA's notes and that Barnard had provided a similar explanation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
Then all of a sudden she saw that again and yet more woundingly his attention had wandered.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
