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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful..
He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.
And now grim and woundsome grew the battle, for the Demons mightily withstood the onset of the Witches, […]
You still have your doubts don't you? She sighed. What proof can I give you that Im telling the truth? What can I say that will convince you? And then her eyes lit up. I know, she said. When you were very little, you sustained a woundsome sort of hunting accident.
Then they leapt up on to the house, and fell to unroofing it. Arnbiorn took his weapons, and warded himself from the inside of the house. He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.
Use woundsome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Woundsome means Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful..
Common synonyms include scatheful, scathely.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.
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