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forwounding

forwounding is the present participle and gerund of forwound.

Meaning of forwound

Verb

forwound (third-person singular simple present forwounds, present participle forwounding, simple past and past participle forwounded)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To wound or injure severely.
    • And Arthur was forwounded with a broad spear of slaughter; fifteen cruel wounds had he, in the least one might thrust two gloves.1894, Sir Mungo William MacCallum, Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Arthurian story from the XVIth century

Questions about forwounding

What is forwounding the present participle and gerund of?
Forwounding is the present participle and gerund of forwound.

Words near forwounding in the dictionary

  1. forworn
  2. forworship
  3. forworth
  4. forwound
  5. forwounded
  6. forwounding
  7. forwounds
  8. forwrap
  9. forwrought
  10. Foryd
  11. foryield

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