Meaning

simple past and past participle of wound.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of wound
2. Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
3. (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
4. (physics) Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.

Example Sentences

Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.

A wounded soldier.

The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.

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.

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.

Shepard: Are you wounded, Williams? Ashley Williams: A few scrapes and burns. Nothing serious. The others weren't so lucky.

My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.

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When Should You Use Wounded?

Use wounded when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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