wounded

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːndɪd/

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• Hyphenation: wound‧ed

wounded

1. 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.

wounded

1. 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.

   • 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.

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

• (suffering from a wound): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (suffering from an emotional injury): damaged, hurt, traumatised
• (having undergone an inelastic collision):

• charge like a wounded bull
• walking wounded