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Rounded vs Wounded - What's the difference?

rounded | wounded |

As verbs the difference between rounded and wounded

is that rounded is (round) while wounded is (wound).

As adjectives the difference between rounded and wounded

is that rounded is made into a circle or sphere while wounded is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.

As a noun wounded is

(qualifier) people who are maimed or have wounds.

rounded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (round)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made into a circle or sphere.
  • Complete or balanced.
  • (mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
  • (botany) Ending in a broad arch.
  • (linguistics, of a vowel) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; see rounded vowel.
  • Derived terms

    * rounded down * rounded up * roundedness

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    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