Wounded vs Singed - What's the difference?
wounded | singed |
(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.
(singe)
To burn slightly.
* L'Estrange
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
As verbs the difference between wounded and singed
is that wounded is (wound) while singed is (singe).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)- 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.
Derived terms
* walking woundedsinged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *singe
English
Verb
(d)- I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.