WOUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wounding mean? 

• WOUNDING (noun)
  The noun WOUNDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of inflicting a wound

  Familiarity information: WOUNDING used as a noun is very rare.

• WOUNDING (adjective)
  The adjective WOUNDING has 1 sense:

1. causing physical or especially psychological injury

  Familiarity information: WOUNDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOUNDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of inflicting a wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

wound; wounding

Hypernyms ("wounding" is a kind of...):

damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)

Derivation:

wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

• WOUNDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing physical or especially psychological injury

Synonyms:

stabbing; wounding

Context example:

wounding and false charges of disloyalty

Similar:

harmful (causing or capable of causing harm)

 Context examples 

He is the most fearful of giving pain, of wounding expectation, and the most incapable of being selfish, of any body I ever saw.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“They aimed at wounding more than Harriet,” said he.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It always gave me pain to observe that Steerforth treated him with systematic disparagement, and seldom lost an occasion of wounding his feelings, or inducing others to do so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Expressed as 2 alternative isoforms in platelets by human PDGFB Gene (PDGF/VEGF Family), 241-aa 27-kDa (precursor) Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-Beta Chain is a potent mitogenic factor for mesenchymal cells characterized by a motif of eight cysteines and released by platelets upon wounding to stimulate adjacent cell growth.

(Platelet Derived Growth Factor Beta Chain, NCI Thesaurus)

Expressed in platelets as 2 alternative isoforms by human PDGFA Gene (PDGF/VEGF Family), Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Alpha is a mitogenic factor for mesenchymal cells characterized by a motif of eight cysteines and released by platelets upon wounding to stimulate adjacent cell growth.

(Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

Human Oncogene SIS is a mutated variant of PDGFB Gene (PDGF/VEGF Family), which encodes 2 alternative isoforms of 241-aa 27-kDa (precursor) Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-Beta Chain, a potent mitogenic factor for mesenchymal cells characterized by a motif of eight cysteines and released by platelets upon wounding to stimulate adjacent cell growth; PDGF activates a RAS/PIK3/AKT1/IKK/NFKB1 pathway.

(Oncogene SIS, NCI Thesaurus)

Now was the moment for her resolution to be executed, and, while her courage was high, she immediately said: Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding yours.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Three times we have had to draw, and once at La Reolle we stood over our wool-bales, Watkin and I, and we laid about us for as long as a man might chant a litany, slaying one rogue and wounding two others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That Marianne, fastidious as she was, thoroughly acquainted with Mrs. Jennings' manners, and invariably disgusted by them, should overlook every inconvenience of that kind, should disregard whatever must be most wounding to her irritable feelings, in her pursuit of one object, was such a proof, so strong, so full, of the importance of that object to her, as Elinor, in spite of all that had passed, was not prepared to witness.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

His sense of her inferiority—of its being a degradation—of the family obstacles which had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)