Wounded vs Mortified - What's the difference?

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Wounded is a related term of mortified.

As verbs the difference between wounded and mortified

is that wounded is (wound) while mortified is (mortify).

As an adjective wounded

is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.

As a noun wounded

is (qualifier) people who are maimed or have wounds.

wounded

English

Verb

(head)

(wound)

* 1913: )

Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.

Adjective

(head)

Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.

* 1883:

...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed.

(figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.

My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.

Noun

(en-plural noun)

(qualifier) People who are maimed or have wounds.

The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.

Derived terms

* walking wounded

mortified

English

Verb

(head)

(mortify)

mortify

English

Verb

(en-verb)

(obsolete) To kill.

(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

* Francis Bacon

Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.

* Hakewill

He mortified pearls in vinegar.

(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

*, II.3:

*:Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.

* Harte

With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.

* Prior

Mortify thy learned lust.

* Bible, Col. iii. 5

Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.

(usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.

I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.

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(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

* Evelyn

the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations

* Addison

How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!

(Scotland, legal, historical) To grant in mortmain

* 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland , Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 ( PDF 2.7 MB):

the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary