Injures vs Wounded - What's the difference?
injures | wounded |
(injure)
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To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
To damage or impair.
To do injustice to.
(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.
As verbs the difference between injures and wounded
is that injures is third-person singular of injure while wounded is past tense of wound.As an adjective wounded is
suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.As a noun wounded is
usually, with "the" People who are maimed or have wounds.injures
English
Verb
(head)injure
English
(injury)Verb
(injur)Synonyms
* harm * damage * hurt * disfigure * wound * mar * impairAntonyms
* praise * help * preserve * benefitwounded
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.
