Synonyms for wounding
wound·ing

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1. wound, woundingadjective

   the act of inflicting a wound

   Synonyms:
   combat injury, injury, lesion, wound

   Antonyms:
   harmless

2. stabbing, woundingadjective

   causing physical or especially psychological injury

   "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

   Synonyms:
   keen, piercing, stabbing, knifelike, cutting, lancinate, lancinating

   Antonyms:
   harmless

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1. List of paraphrases for "wounding":

   injuring, injury, injured, wounded, wound

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1. The Navy:

   The presumed culprits put up resistance and scuffled with Navy personnel, with the unfortunate result that a firearm accidentally discharged, wounding one person, this drew a larger group that attacked the Navy personnel, who withdrew to avoid a confrontation.

2. Claire Papoulias:

   The teacher was presenting a lesson and all of sudden I heard gunshots directly behind me. That’s when the shooter opened the back classroom door and started firing at my classmates in the back, wounding them. I smelled and saw the gunpowder, i thought I was going to die.

3. Werner Herzog:

   Truly the issue of death was not for me the governing theme of the film. The opposite. For me, the main subject of the film was healing and how to deal with it, not enough films deal with healing, most films deal with wounding. And it's time to take on this subject of how you forgive and how you forgive yourself because it is not time that heals, that's a lie, you have to do something.

4. Bernard Joseph Saurin:

   Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

5. Sagir Badaru:

   The car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many.