Meanings
- participlepastsimple 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
- Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
A wounded soldier.
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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.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLCLong 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.
1964, Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, Han Fei Tzu - Basic Writings, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50Shepard: Are you wounded, Williams? Ashley Williams: A few scrapes and burns. Nothing serious. The others weren't so lucky.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime - figurativelySuffering from an emotional injury.
My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
Synonyms: damaged, hurt, traumatised
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSuffering from an emotional injury.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic جَرِيح, مَجْرُوح
- جَرِيح (jarīḥ)suffering from a wound
- مَجْرُوح (majrūḥ)suffering from a wound
Bulgarian обиден, ра́нен
- обиден (obiden)suffering from an emotional injury
- ра́нен (ránen)suffering from a wound
- нара́нен (naránen)suffering from a wound
Catalan ferit
- feritsuffering from a wound
Chinese Mandarin 負傷 /负伤
- 負傷 /负伤 (fùshāng)suffering from a wound
Czech zraněný
- zraněnýsuffering from a wound
Estonian haavatud
- haavatudsuffering from a wound
Finnish loukkaantunut, haavoittunut
- loukkaantunutsuffering from an emotional injury
- haavoittunutsuffering from an emotional injury
- haavoittunutsuffering from a wound
French blessé
- blessésuffering from a wound
German verwundet
- verwundetsuffering from a wound
Greek τραυματισμένος
- τραυματισμένος (travmatisménos)suffering from a wound
Hindi घायल, चोटिल
- घायल (ghāyal)suffering from a wound
- चोटिल (coṭil)suffering from a wound
Indonesian terluka
- terlukasuffering from a wound
Italian ferito, ferito
- feritosuffering from an emotional injury
- feritosuffering from a wound
Japanese 負傷した
- 負傷した (fushō-shita)suffering from a wound
Korean 부상한
- 부상한 (busanghan)suffering from a wound
Latin saucius, laesus
- sauciussuffering from a wound
- laesussuffering from a wound
Māori tūākiri, taotū
- tūākirisuffering from a wound
- taotūsuffering from a wound
Persian مجروح
- مجروح (majruh)suffering from a wound
Polish ranny
- rannysuffering from a wound
Portuguese ferido, machucado
- feridosuffering from an emotional injury
- machucadosuffering from an emotional injury
- feridosuffering from a wound
- machucadosuffering from a wound
Russian ра́неный
- ра́неный (ránenyj)suffering from a wound
Slovak zranený
- zranenýsuffering from a wound
Spanish herido
- heridosuffering from a wound
Swedish sårad, sårad
- såradsuffering from an emotional injury
- såradsuffering from a wound
Thai บอบช้ำ, บาดเจ็บ
- บอบช้ำsuffering from an emotional injury
- บาดเจ็บ (bàat-jèp)suffering from a wound
Turkish yaralı, yaralanan
- yaralısuffering from a wound
- yaralanansuffering from a wound
Ukrainian пора́нений, пора́нений
- пора́нений (poránenyj)suffering from a wound
- пора́нений (poránenyj)suffering from a wound
Urdu زخمی
- زخمیsuffering from a wound
Cite this entry
wounded. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wounded
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