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WOUNDED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are wounded
Example:
they had to leave the wounded where they fell
Synonyms:
maimed; wounded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("wounded" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
Example:
ambulances...for the hurt men and women
Synonyms:
hurt; wounded
Classified under:
Similar:
injured (harmed)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wound
Context examples:
But I had wounded Dora's soft little heart, and she was not to be comforted.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Ah, see now,” said she, “how they have bruised and wounded those poor trees; they will never get well.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Every feeling of duty, honour, and tenderness was wounded by her sister's speech and her mother's reply.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The man watched him go, and though his face was expressionless as ever, his eyes were like the eyes of a wounded deer.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A three-parts-parried blow drew blood from Alleyne's left shoulder, but at the same moment he wounded Tranter slightly upon the thigh.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was after such encounters that the dead and wounded were carted back to the towns, and their places filled by men eager for the man-hunt.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
His head had been smashed to pulp by heavy blows of a sandbag or some such instrument, which had crushed rather than wounded.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I thought so too; and my self-esteem being wounded by the false charge, I answered promptly, I never cried for such a thing in my life: I hate going out in the carriage.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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