wounded
verbadjectivecommon in dialogue
- //ˈwuːndɪd//
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
verb
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Also a form of woundsimple past and past participle of wound
Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.
adjective
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Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
A wounded soldier.
The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
Every single hospital was taking in wounded from the front.
[…] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
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figurativeSuffering from an emotional injury.
My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
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Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
a wounded nucleon
wounded · Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
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