# wounded

Pronunciation: say "WOON-did" /ˈwuːndɪd/

## Adjective

1. Having a wound, particularly one inflicted by a gun, knife, or other weapon in battle.
   - Simple: Hurt by a weapon or attack, with an injury to the body.
   - _Medics treated dozens of wounded civilians after the blast tore through the market._
   - _Two wounded officers were rushed into surgery before midnight._
3. Suffering from an emotional injury; hurt in one's feelings rather than in the body.
   - Simple: Feeling hurt inside after something painful happened to your feelings.
   - _His wounded pride kept him from apologizing for weeks._
   - _There was a wounded tone in her voice as she read the letter aloud._
4. Describing a particle that has undergone an inelastic collision, losing some of its energy in the process.
   - Simple: Used of a tiny particle that has lost some energy after crashing into another particle.
   - _The model predicts how many wounded nucleons form in each heavy-ion collision._
   - _Each wounded proton carried noticeably less energy than it had before impact._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of wound. — simple past and past participle of wound
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of wound. Use this form for hurting that already happened.
   - _A stray bullet wounded a bystander during the robbery._
   - _Several protesters were wounded when the police charged the crowd._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wounded (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).