# wounding

Pronunciation: say "WOOND-ing" /ˈwuːndɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of wound. — present participle and gerund of wound
   - Simple: Present participle of wound. Use this form for an action happening now or as the name of the action.
   - _He was wounding his own reputation with every careless remark._
   - _Wounding an animal needlessly is widely considered cruel._

## Noun

2. The act of inflicting an injury on a person or animal.
   - Simple: The act of causing a cut or other injury to someone's body.
   - _The deliberate wounding of the hostages drew international condemnation._
   - _Prosecutors described the wounding as unprovoked and brutal._
3. A particular occurrence in which a person or animal is wounded.
   - Simple: A single case of a person being hurt or injured.
   - _The medic treated each wounding as it arrived from the front._
   - _Several woundings from the explosion required immediate surgery._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wounding (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).