Wounded vs Aggrieved - What's the difference?
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(wound)
* 1913: )
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.
* 1883:
(figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
(qualifier) People who are maimed or have wounds.
Angry or resentful due to unjust treatment.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle
, work=BBC Sport
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions. }} (legal) Having one's rights denied or curtailed.
(aggrieve)
Wounded is a related term of aggrieved.
As verbs the difference between wounded and aggrieved
is that wounded is (wound) while aggrieved is (aggrieve).As adjectives the difference between wounded and aggrieved
is that wounded is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle while aggrieved is angry or resentful due to unjust treatment.As a noun wounded
is (qualifier) people who are maimed or have wounds.wounded
English
Verb
(head)- Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.
Adjective
(head)- ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed.
- My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
Noun
(en-plural noun)- The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
Derived terms
* walking woundedaggrieved
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am aggrieved at the conditions which have been forced upon me.
citation, page= , passage=Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions. }}
- The aggrieved person may present their petition to the court for review.