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Wounded
WOUNDED
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Definition 2024
wounded
wounded
English
Verb
wounded
- simple past tense and past participle of wound
- 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)
- Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.
- 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)
Adjective
wounded
- Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
- My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
- (physics) Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
- a wounded nucleon
Translations
suffering from a wound
suffering from an emotional injury
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Noun
wounded pl (plural only)
- (usually, with "the") People who are maimed or have wounds.
- The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
Derived terms
Translations
people who have suffered wounds
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