wounded

[ woon-did ]

adjective

1. suffering injury or bodily harm, as a laceration or bullet wound:

   to bandage a wounded hand.

2. marred; damaged; impaired:

   a wounded reputation.

noun

1. Usually the wounded. wounded persons collectively:

   to treat the wounded.

wounded

/ ˈwuːndɪd /

adjective

1. 1. suffering from wounds; injured, esp in a battle or fight
   2. ( as collective noun; preceded by the )

      the wounded

2. (of feelings) damaged or hurt

Other Words From

• self-wounded adjective
• un·wounded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wounded¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English gewundode; wound ¹, -ed ²

Example Sentences

Another health official told The New York Times that at least 40 were dead and 120 wounded.

From The Daily Beast

The family is helmed by a wounded healer, Samuel, a prizefighter turned pastor who rules his home with an iron fist.

From Washington Post

Styled as if Vivienne Westwood stormed The Roxy, only Stone could pull off the antihero’s transformation from Estella’s wounded hunger into Cruella’s mad-eyed menace.

From The Daily Beast

It’s a little bit different when we’re all looking up saying, “Okay, we’re down over half a million jobs, the city still feels wounded.”

From Freakonomics

Police said Wanda and Ebony Wright were found inside the apartment and a wounded woman was in a parking lot outside when authorities arrived.

From Washington Post

One police officer was coolly dispatched as he lay wounded on the sidewalk.

From The Daily Beast

The father of the wounded Officer Andrew Dossi sums it up perfectly.

From The Daily Beast

Father José Julián was shot and wounded driving in a car through the sierra of Ajuchitán.

From The Daily Beast

The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

From The Daily Beast

Gunfire was exchanged and Sam, who was unarmed, was wounded.

From The Daily Beast

As the window dropped, Ripperda saw the wounded postilion fall on the neck of his horse.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a distinguished warrior under Francis I, mortally wounded at the battle of Marignan.

From Project Gutenberg

By the force that the governor exerted in the thrust, he felt that he himself was wounded in the hand.

From Project Gutenberg

The sepoys refused to obey, and the sowars, drawing their pistols, shot dead or severely wounded six British officers.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bruised
• damaged
• disabled
• harmed
• impaired