Synonyms:
stabbing, wounding
Meaning: causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
wound, wounding
Meaning: the act of inflicting a wound
Usage examples
I therefore protested against his putting in for me, and urged every reason to dissuade him from it that I could, without wounding his feelings.
We heard this morning that those very savages rode out on the plains in a roundabout way, so as to get in advance of the Cheyennes, and then had hidden themselves on the top of a bluff overlooking the trail they knew the Cheyennes to be following, and had fired upon them as they passed below, killing two and wounding a number of others.