wounded
adj/ˈwuːndɪd/
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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.
4 more examples
- 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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- Long ago, when King Kung of Ch’u fought with Duke Li of Chin at Yen-ling, the Ch’u army was defeated and King Kung was wounded in the eye.1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50:
- Shepard: Are you wounded, Williams? Ashley Williams: A few scrapes and burns. Nothing serious. The others weren't so lucky.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
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Figuratively Suffering from an emotional injury.
- My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
3
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
- a wounded nucleon
- Synonyms
- hurt, imbrued, injured, damaged, traumatised, banged up, crocked, fucked up, gimped, jacked up, messed up, tore up, vulnerated, wounded
- Antonyms
- healthy, intact, noninjured, nonwounded, uninjured, unwounded
- Derived terms
- charge like a wounded bull, walking wounded
- Hypernyms
- deteriorated