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Webster 1828 Edition


Wounded

WOUNDED

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Hurt; injured.

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wounded

wounded

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Verb

wounded

  1. simple past tense and past participle of wound

Adjective

wounded

  1. 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.
  2. (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
    My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
  3. (physics) Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
    a wounded nucleon

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Noun

wounded pl (plural only)

  1. (usually, with "the") People who are maimed or have wounds.
    The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.

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