wronging

Pluralwrongings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of wrong.

   By concealing the evidence, he was wronging the very people he claimed to protect.

   Wronging a loyal employee can damage a manager's reputation for years.

   Note

   Only the verb wrong has this form; the adjective, as in a wrong answer, has none. As a participle it follows be: he was wronging the people. As a gerund it works like a noun yet still takes a direct object, as in wronging a loyal employee. That object is the test that separates it from the countable noun, which takes of and a plural, wrongings.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   An act through which a person is treated unjustly; an instance of unfair treatment.

   A wronging of that magnitude rarely goes unpunished.

   The trial exposed every wronging the company had committed against its workers.

   Similarinjustice, abuse, offense

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