wounded

Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.

Adjective

  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.
  2. Suffering from an emotional injury.
    • My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
  3. Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
    • a wounded nucleon

Synonyms

hurt imbrued injured damaged traumatised banged up crocked fucked up gimped jacked up messed up tore up vulnerated wounded

Antonyms

healthy intact noninjured nonwounded uninjured unwounded

Hypernyms

deteriorated

Hyponyms

bruised burned crippled cut gashed maimed pierced scalded scratched stabbed gammy

Related

injury harm

Derived

charge like a wounded bull walking wounded

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of wound
    • Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows. - 1913, Valmiki, translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy, The Ramayana: