woundingly

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adverb

In a way that wounds

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adverbwoundingly (comparative more woundingly, superlative most 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

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

woundingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woundingly

MLA

“woundingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woundingly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “woundingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woundingly.

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