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adjective

as in damaging

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wounding

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verb

present participle of wound
1
as in injuring
to cause bodily damage to an arrow had wounded the animal, but the vet was able to save it

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2
as in insulting
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in that callous comment really wounded me

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Recent Examples of wounding
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Peshawar, PakistanAP — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. — CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 Police are searching for the gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Delaware County on Friday night, wounding an employee and sending shoppers scrambling for safety. — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026 In its immediate aftermath, Atlanta police said at least four people appeared to have opened fire April 4, killing Tianah Robinson and wounding another girl. — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 1 Aug. 2026 In Kyiv, Russian forces struck the capital with ballistic missiles, killing a 31-year-old man and wounding two others, the National Police press service said. — ABC News, 30 July 2026 And Israeli drones struck the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al Balah, wounding 10 people, the hospital said. — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026 Moscow seeks to capitalize on this shortage with ballistic missile strikes in early July killing dozens of Ukrainian civilians including children, and wounding hundreds more. — Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026 In neighboring Iraq, a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, an Iranian Kurdish dissident group, near Irbil was struck by a drone early Sunday, wounding eight of its members, according to Rebaz Sharifi, a military official with the group. — Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026 Another Israeli strike hit a group of people in the Zeitoun neighborhood, killing four and wounding another critically, health officials said. — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wounding
  1. damaging
  2. injuring
  3. insulting
  4. fatal
  5. offending
  6. injurious
  7. outraging
  8. destructive
Adjective
  • Farther north, storms developing across the northern High Plains could bring damaging winds and hail as a cold front moves through parts of the Dakotas and Montana.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The assemblage turned the damaging caricature into a revolutionary hero, and made Saar a star of the Black Arts movement.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of damaging
Verb
  • Last week, Tehran accused Kyiv of striking an Iranian commercial vessel carrying a cargo of iron, killing a seafarer and injuring three others.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sami Zayn, who had recently lost the title, was visibly infuriated by Owens' unexpected return and victory, even injuring Owens' neck during the intense bout.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of injuring
Verb
  • Iran's government denied involvement in the 2022 stabbing, but its Foreign Ministry's then-spokesperson suggested Rushdie invited trouble by insulting Islam.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
  • In its portrayal of cross-gender relations, the series is consistently cruel to women, insulting to men, empathetic toward nobody and cynical about everything.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
Definition of insulting
Adjective
  • Bush and Bell both honed their leadership skills in Ferguson amid the racial unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in 2014.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The certification — and several more Boeing is targeting this year — are crucial in getting the company back to profitability, after two fatal crashes months apart in 2018 helped European rival Airbus pull ahead in global plane deliveries.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of fatal
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  • Organizations often overlook early warning signs because the offending individual delivers strong business results.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • That feels easy enough to follow, particularly when breaking the rule risks offending Zeus, the god of foreigners.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of offending
Adjective
  • The suit makes three claims against the organization (defamation, tortious interference and injurious falsehood) and asks a judge to award Barth and his firm more than $10 million in damages.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
  • Kevin Maxwell, 37, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, was charged with assault and menacing, both as hate crimes, and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
Definition of injurious
Verb
  • On Day 1 of the truce, and in the days since, Israel has stepped up attacks against Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, in Lebanon, outraging Iran and leading to accusations the terms had been breached.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Definition of outraging
Adjective
  • The blaze in Spokane County is unfolding during a wildfire year that so far has been historically destructive across the United States.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The Associated Press reported in December that two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of destructive

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