wounding

Other forms of wounding

plural

woundings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wounding

What does wounding mean?

wounding means "the act of inflicting a wound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wounding?

wounding has 2 syllables: woun-ding. The stress falls on "woun". In IPA it is /ˈwundɪŋ/.

What is another word for wounding?

Close synonyms include wound, stabbing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wounding a common word?

wounding is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.