Word Finder - wounded

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To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.

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The police officer wounded the suspect during the fight that ensued.

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To hurt (a person's feelings).

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The actor's pride was wounded when the leading role went to his rival.

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Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.

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A wounded soldier.

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Suffering from an emotional injury.

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My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.

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Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.

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a wounded nucleon

She kicked out her wounded leg.

Ingrid was wounded again.

He had been wounded deeply.

The wounded leg soon became so much worse that the horse was suspended from a beam.

The dogs scattered, leaving Brutus wounded on the ground.

His horse had been wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet.

Porus fell sorely wounded into his hands.

The worst tumults occurred in November 1904, when Italian students and professors were attacked at Innsbruck without provocation; being outnumbered by a hundred to one the Italians were forced to use their revolvers in self-defence, and several persons were wounded on both sides.

She stooped to gather the wounded hen.

He was talking out of wounded pride.

Two roads from the wall, she saw where the wounded and dead were being kept.

Circumventing the Italian troops, Garibaldi entered Catania, crossed to Melito with 3000 men on the 25th of August, but was taken prisoner and wounded by Cialdini's forces at Aspromonte on the 27th of August.

Her gaze settled on Kiera, a wounded look of betrayal there.

The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost.

Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness of the night.

But every antiseptic, however good is more or less toxic and irritating to a wounded surface.

Jessi didn't know what she wanted, and the wounded expression on her face made him want to kiss her.

In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the campaign against Napoleon, and was wounded in the battle of Ligny.

The French had not yet occupied that region, and the Russians--the uninjured and slightly wounded--had left it long ago.

Rostov was happy in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were false.

The man smashed his heel onto her already wounded arm.

He was attacked by assassins on the steps of St Peter's and badly wounded; attendants carried him to a cardinal's house, and, fearing poison, he was nursed only by his wife and Sancha, his sister-in-law.

Then he imagined how, after the attack, Bogdanich would come up to him as he lay wounded and would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation.

For Christ's sake let me alone! cried the wounded man, but still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher.

If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to save myself? he thought.

Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had spread by the fact that the Emperor's carriage had really galloped from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal Count Tolstoy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in the Emperor's suite.

Dolokhov--now an officer--wounded in the arm, and on foot, with the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, represented all that was left of that whole regiment.

There were beds in these rooms and the sick and wounded officers were lying or sitting on them.

In the gateway lay three wounded and four dead.

It fled like a wounded animal and it was impossible to block its path.

He was wounded at Wagram, and distinguished during the operations in Italy in 1813 and 1814.

First Bela solicited the aid of the pope, but was compelled finally to resort to arms, and crossing the Leitha on the 15th of June 1246, routed Frederick, who was seriously wounded and trampled to death by his own horsemen.

By nightfall upwards of 100,000 men, encumbered with at least 20,000 wounded, were crowded together on the little island scarcely a mile square, short of provisions and entirely destitute of course of all hospital accessories.

The wounded crept together in twos and threes and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov.

On the 7th of October he was dangerously wounded, and the queen showed her anxiety for his safety by riding 40 miles to visit him, incurring a severe illness.

His chief exploits during the war were his defence of the wounded Sarpedon, his fight with Ajax, son of Telamon (his particular enemy), and the storming of the Greek ramparts.

After being appointed, in 1830, a general officer, he was present in the campaign in Poland, and was wounded at the battle of Grochow, on the 25th of February 1831.

It was not without secret satisfaction, therefore, that Prince Gorchakov watched the repeated defeats of the Austrian army in the Italian campaign of 1859, and he felt inclined to respond to the advances made to him by Napoleon III.; but the germs of a Russo-French alliance, which had come into existence immediately after the Crimean War, ripened very slowly, and they were completely destroyed in 1863 when the French emperor wounded Russian sensibilities deeply by giving moral and diplomatic support to the Polish insurrection.

During the Russo-Japanese War he served in the Red Cross and in the Municipal Union for the organization of hospitals; he was left to take care of the Russian wounded after the battle of Moukden, and showed much dignity and efficiency in the performance of his arduous duties.

Under their direction steady advance was made on the side which Bonaparte saw to be all important; a sortie of part of the British, Spanish and Neapolitan forces on the 30th of November was beaten back with loss, General O'Hara, their commander, being severely wounded and taken prisoner.

Bonaparte and Josephine escaped uninjured, but several bystanders were killed or wounded.

He takes the field himself, and performs many heroic deeds until he is wounded and forced to withdraw to his tent.

Two assaults were repulsed after hours of hand-to-hand fighting; and when, after a fresh bombardment, the garrison saw that their case was hopeless, they killed their women and children, and only succumbed at last to a third assault because every man of them was either killed or mortally wounded.

In 1770, on the 5th of March, in a street brawl, a number of citizens were killed or wounded by the soldiers, who fired into a crowd that were baiting a sentry.

Catulus, who had been wounded at Drepanum, took no part in the operations, but on his return to Rome was accorded the honour of a triumph, which against his will he shared with Valerius.

The advance of the Americans had been rapid and decisive, with a small loss of life - three killed and forty wounded - due to the skill with which the military manoeuvres were planned and executed and the cordial welcome given the invaders by the inhabitants.

In 1866 he accepted a post in the School of Forestry at Neustadt-Eberswalde, but soon moved to Carlsruhe Polytechnic. During the Franco-German campaign the Polytechnic was used as a hospital, and he took an active part in the care of the wounded.

After prolonged attacks lasting to nightfall, Hood had once more to draw off, with about io,000 men killed and wounded.

Having been fortified the town stood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the one in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.

On the morning of the 19th of August 1779 the British garrison was surprised by Major Henry Lee ("Light Horse Harry"), who with about 50o men took 159 prisoners and lost only 2 killed and 3 wounded, one of the most brilliant exploits during the War of Independence.