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wounded

noun · adjective US /ˈwuːndɪd/

people who are wounded

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,447 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,680 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. people who are wounded also: maimed they had to leave the wounded where they fell

adjective

  1. suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle also: hurt nursing his wounded armambulances...for the hurt men and women

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

wounded in real books

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  • I chanced to light on some goats, shot one and wounded another.

    The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1

  • There, dungeoned in the cockpit, the wounded go down, And the chaplain with them.

    John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1

  • Wounded, she kept the secret of her wound, hung her head, and said nothing.

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • Such fellows are always cowards; the moment they saw one of their accomplices mortally wounded, they fled.

    An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1

  • The chief’s eye flashed; but presently Softened itself, as sheathes A film the mother-eagle’s eye When her bruised eaglet breathes; “You’re wounded!”

    Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1

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