Crossword clues for wounding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wound \Wound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wounding.] [AS. wundian. [root]140. See Wound, n.]
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To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
The archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
--1 Sam. xxxi. 3. -
To hurt the feelings of; to pain by disrespect, ingratitude, or the like; to cause injury to.
When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
--1 Cor. viii. 12.
Wiktionary
n. The act of inflicting a wound. vb. (present participle of wound English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "wounding".
I was delighted that my scheme of wounding her vanity had succeeded, and I began by reading aloud an anacreontic, adding to its beauties by the modulation of my voice, and keenly enjoying her pleasure at finding her work so fair.
When they were ready the door was opened, and we saw everything which could excite desire without wounding decency.
This was the afternoon following the murder of Perry Trappe and his servant, Harvey Diker - a crime which had preceded the slaying of a policeman and the wounding of two men who had tried to apprehend the murderer.
And you, Dorsenne, since you are afraid of wounding that gentleman, I will not prevent you from going to his house--personally, do you hear--to warn him that Monsieur Chapron, here present, has chosen for his first second a disagreeable person, an old duellist, anything you like, but who desires strict form, and, first of all, a correct call made upon us by them, in order to settle officially upon a rendezvous.
She worked with biochemical signals in the lab: with plants that released ethylene after wounding, to warn other plants that an insect or fungal attack was on the way.
She left out nothing, neither the plans she knew Tusser had for her nor the wounding of Gulper, nor die mad flight to get away.
As he darted forward, she ripped his long sword out of its sheath, raised it and hacked, wounding him, and in the same movement turned for Yoshi.
It was only three years ago that they hanged the Liney brothers for wounding a gamekeeper.
Hers, his, for his wounded honour as host, by his guest wounding herself on his rose-bushes, for the roses themselves?
Sir Simon Jekyll com- plained to Richard Totesham that Will Skeat had failed to support him in battle, then also claimed to have been responsible for the death or wounding of forty-one enemy men-at-arms.
When Zenobia knew that these dresses were meant for three beautiful women, whom I wished to make a centre of attraction to the whole assembly, she improved on my cuts and slashes, and arranged the rents in such a manner that they would inspire passion without wounding modesty.
The ship, lifted by a formidable wave, had just stranded, and her masting had fallen without wounding anybody.
The ball entered the right shoulder, immediately over the suprascapular notch, passed superficially upward and forward into the neck, wounding the esophagus posteriorly at a point opposite the thyroid cartilage, and lodged in the left side of the neck.
In this instance, however, the precipitating incident was the horrendous damage wrought by a recidivist splinter faction of Sinn Fein, which had detonated a shrapnel bomb in the middle of Harrods during one of its busiest hours, wounding hundreds.
But unlike many such rites, which often involve abandonment or even scarification some physical evidence of a test or ordeal endured mine was not a wounding ritual.