wounded, ppl. a.
(ˈwuːndɪd)
[f. wound v. + -ed1.]
1. Subjected to, injured or impaired by, wounding; suffering from a wound or wounds; a. Of persons or animals.
| 1382 Wyclif Ps. lxxxvii. 6 As woundid men slepende in sepulcris. c 1400 Destr. Troy 7238 Mony woundit wegh fro his wepyn past. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. 5410 Þere I leue þis dedly wounded man, Ful sore seke. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 254 There lay hee stretch'd along like a Wounded knight. 1672 Wiseman Wounds i. 74 All these wounded Patients. 1709 Pope Ess. Crit. 357 A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 1771 Junius Lett. liv. 283 It is the wounded soldier who deserves the reward. 1795–6 Wordsw. Borderers v. 2152 The wounded deer retires to solitude. 1805 Scott Last Minstr. iii. x, It stretch'd him on the plain, Beside the wounded Deloraine. 1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xi. 205 Like some poor wounded bird that steals into a thicket to die. 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 633 Kay near him groaning like a wounded bull. |
b. Of parts of the body.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 5 b/2 We can not, without dilaniatione of the wounded parte, drawe forth the bullet. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iv. vi. 25 Ouer Suffolkes necke He threw his wounded arme. 1697 Dryden æneis xii. 946 Fix'd on his wounded Face a Shaft he bore. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 399 A cataplasm..applied to the wounded part, is the general remedy for venomous Bites. 1826 S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 101 A stratum of coagulated blood..extending from a few inches below the wounded part. |
c. fig. Impaired, attainted.
| 1692 Prior Ode Imit. Hor. xiii, Tell 'em howe're, the King can yet Forgive Their guilty Sloth,..And let their wounded Honour live. |
2. absol. Those who have received wounds.
| c 1000 Rule of Chrodegang l, Þam ᵹemete þe gode læcas doð ymbe ᵹewundode. c 1300 E.E. Psalter lxxxviii. 5 Als wounded, slepand þat are In throghes. 1672 Wiseman Wounds ii. 67 From the defeat of the Scotch-army near Dunbar, there came many of the wounded to St. Johnstons. 1813 Scott Rokeby iv. xxiii, The yellow moon her lustre shed Upon the wounded and the dead. 1845 C. Sumner True Grandeur Nations (1846) 15 A little cheese and a few vegetables are all that can be afforded to the sick and wounded. 1894 in W. W. Tomlinson Songs & Ballads Sport (1895) 260 Round the goals the wounded sit. |
3. fig. Deeply pained or grieved.
| 1390 Gower Conf. III. 370 Sche hath my wounded herte enoignt. 1613 Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. ii. 75 The quiet of my wounded Conscience. 1647 Fuller (title) The Cause and Cure of a wounded Conscience. 1781 Cowper Retirem. 341 No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels. 1848 Dickens Dombey xlix, The wounded heart of Florence. 1884 Flor. Marryat Under Lilies ii, The only person in the room who pours oil upon his wounded sensibility. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lix, If there were anyone who could bring healing to her wounded soul. |
4. Of inanimate objects: Marked or injured by cutting or piercing.
| c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. lv. v, Their speach..softer flowes then balme from wounded rind. a 1717 Parnell Song Poems (1737) 20 No more he..with a True-love Knot and Name Engraves a wounded Tree. 1718 Prior Solomon iii. 229 Whom the cut Brass, or wounded Marble shows Victor o'er Life. 1801 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) IV. 384 The greatest quantity of rope has been made from the wounded cables of the prizes. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. i. xlix, Wide scatter'd hoof-marks dint the wounded ground. 1846 Dickens Battle of Life i, For a long time, there were wounded trees upon the battle-ground. 1897 W. G. Smith tr. Tubeuf's Dis. Plants 75 A healing tissue immediately begins to form on wounded surfaces. |
† 5. = woundy adv. Obs.
| 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 28 ¶2 A wounded sharp Boy he is. |