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woundingly

woundingly adverb: in a way that wounds.

Adverb

woundingly (comparative more woundingly, superlative most woundingly)

  1. In a way that wounds
    • But when the playwright Lynn Nottage spoke the first two words of the title to Congolese women in the refugee camps of Uganda in 2004, she said, they repeated them in such a way that the words became woundingly new.2009 January 25, Celia Mcgee, “Approaching Brecht, by Way of Africa”, in New York Times

Forms of woundingly

comparativemore woundingly
superlativemost woundingly

Origin of woundingly

From wounding + -ly.

Questions about woundingly

What does woundingly mean?
Woundingly means in a way that wounds.
What part of speech is woundingly?
Woundingly is an adverb.

Words near woundingly in the dictionary

  1. woundfins
  2. woundfuck
  3. woundfucking
  4. woundily
  5. wounding
  6. woundingly
  7. woundings
  8. woundless
  9. woundlessness
  10. woundlike
  11. wounds

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