Wounded vs Imbrued - What's the difference?
wounded | imbrued |
(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.
(imbrue)
(obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
*:Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
(heraldry) Stained with blood.
As verbs the difference between wounded and imbrued
is that wounded is (wound) while imbrued is (imbrue).As adjectives the difference between wounded and imbrued
is that wounded is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle while imbrued is (obsolete) stained with blood; wounded, bloody.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.