Mounded vs Wounded - What's the difference?
mounded | wounded |
(mound)
(obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
(obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
(obsolete) A helmet.
(obsolete) Might; size.
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
(US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
(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 mounded and wounded
is that mounded is past tense of mound 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.mounded
English
Verb
(head)mound
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (part of regalia) globus cruciger, globe, orbDerived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.
See also
* (wikipedia "mound") *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.