Severe and Wounding

Severe

Severe adjective - Given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint.

Wounding and severe are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wounding" instead an adjective "Severe".

Nearby Words: severely, severity, severed

Wounding

Wounding adjective - Causing physical or especially psychological injury.

Severe and wounding are semantically related. You can use "Severe" instead an adjective "Wounding".

Nearby Words: wound, wounded

Both words in one sentence

  • Pyrrhic Victory The cost is the loss of their control over the firm's earthly assets, the death of two major characters, abandonment of a third, severe wounding of a fourth, and a textbook Bolivian Army Ending.
  • When a terrible incident results in the severe wounding of the bully and the loss of the boy's sight, he lives in anguish for several weeks until he slowly begins to develop a magical "second sight," the true awakening of his latent magic powers.
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