wounding

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wound1 /wuːnd/

▶noun

• 1 an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact.

• 2 an injury to a person's feelings or reputation.

▶verb inflict a wound on.

– derivatives
wounding noun & adjective,
woundingly adverb,
woundless adjective.

– origin OE wund (n.), wundian (v.), of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wound2 /waʊnd/

past and past participle of wind2.