wounded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːndɪd/

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• Hyphenation: wound‧ed

Verb

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.

Adjective

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

Synonyms

• (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

• charge like a wounded bull
• walking wounded

Translations

suffering from a wound

• Arabic: جَرِيح (jarīḥ), مَجْرُوح (majrūḥ)
• Armenian: վիրավոր (hy) (viravor)
• Azerbaijani: yaralı (az)
• Belarusian: пара́нены (paránjeny), ра́нены (ránjeny)
• Bulgarian: ра́нен (bg) (ránen), нара́нен (bg) (naránen)
• Catalan: ferit (ca)
• Chickasaw: kolofa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 負傷／负伤 (zh) (fùshāng)

• Czech: zraněný (cs)
• Estonian: haavatud
• Finnish: haavoittunut (fi)
• French: blessé (fr)
• German: verwundet (de)
• Greek: τραυματισμένος (el) (travmatisménos)
• Hindi: घायल (hi) (ghāyal)
• Indonesian: terluka (id)
• Italian: ferito (it)
• Japanese: 負傷した (ja) (ふしょうした, fushō-shita)
• Korean: 부상한 (ko) (busanghan)
• Latin: saucius, laesus
• Maori: tūākiri, taotū
• Ottoman Turkish: خسته (haste, hasta)
• Persian: مجروح (fa) (majruh)
• Polish: ranny (pl)
• Portuguese: ferido (pt), machucado (pt)
• Russian: ра́неный (ru) (ránenyj)
• Slovak: zranený
• Spanish: herido (es)
• Turkish: yaralı (tr), yaralanan
• Ukrainian: пора́нений (poránenyj), пора́нений m (poránenyj)
• Urdu: زخمی
• Zazaki: dırbetın (diq)

suffering from an emotional injury

• Bulgarian: обиден (bg) (obiden)
• Finnish: loukkaantunut (fi), haavoittunut (fi)
• Italian: ferito (it)
• Portuguese: ferido (pt), machucado (pt)