wounded

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwuːndɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: wound‧ed

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wounded

  1. simple past and past participle of wound

Adjective[edit]

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

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