ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Woundingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Woundingly is an adverb meaning In a way that wounds.

Meaning

In a way that wounds.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woundedly, gut-wrenchingly, laceratingly, poignantly, harrowingly, heartrendingly.

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