wounded
English
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editVerb
editwounded
- simple past 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
editwounded
- 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.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- 1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50:
- 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.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
- Shepard: Are you wounded, Williams?
Ashley Williams: A few scrapes and burns. Nothing serious. The others weren't so lucky.
- (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
Synonyms
edit- (suffering from a wound): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
- (suffering from an emotional injury): damaged, hurt, traumatised
- (having undergone an inelastic collision):
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsuffering from a wound
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