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形容詞

woundsome (comparative more woundsome, superlative most woundsome)

1. Causing, resembling, or indicating a wound or injury; hurtful; painful.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 72:

     And now grim and woundsome grew the battle, for the Demons mightily withstood the onset of the Witches, […]

   • 2000, Michael Jan Friedman, A Call to Darkness:

     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.

   • 2010, Mark Ludwig Stinson, The Saga Hoard - Volume 1: Icelandic Sagas:

     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.

   • 2011, The Eyrbyggja Saga and The Story of the Heath-Slayings:

     He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.

同意語

• scatheful
• scathely