Wounded vs Pounded - What's the difference?
wounded | pounded |
(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 wounded and pounded
is that wounded is (wound) while pounded is (pound).As adjectives the difference between wounded and pounded
is that wounded is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle while pounded is (slang).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.