wounded

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Verb

wounded

1. Simple past tense 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.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. (figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.

   My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.

Translations

suffering from a wound

Arabic: جريح (ar) (jariiH), مجروح (ar) (majruuH) Chinese: Mandarin: 負傷 (cmn), 负伤 (cmn) (fùshāng) Finnish: haavoittunut (fi) French: blessé (fr) German: verwundet (de)

Italian: ferito (it) Japanese: 負傷した (ja) (ふしょうした, fushō-shita) Persian: مجروح (fa) (majruh) Russian: раненый (ru) (ránenyj) Swahili: majeruhi (sw)

suffering from an emotional injury

Finnish: loukkaantunut (fi), haavoittunut (fi) Italian: ferito (it)

Swahili: majeruhi (sw)

Noun

wounded (plural only)

1. (usually, with "the") People who are maimed or have wounds.

   The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.

Derived terms

• walking wounded

Translations

people who have suffered wounds

Finnish: haavoittuneet (fi) pl.