wounding

English

Noun

wounding (plural woundings)

1. The act of inflicting a wound.
2. An instance of being wounded.
   • 1911, Mary Hunter Austin, The Arrow Maker:

     Who is there of mine goes to this war that I should grieve for his wounding or look for his return?

Translations

act of inflicting a wound

• Finnish: haavoittaminen (fi)
• Galician: vulneración (gl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ranjavanje, ozl(j)eđivanje

instance of being wounded

• Finnish: haavoittuminen (fi)

Verb

wounding

1. present participle and gerund of wound