wounded

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of wound
   Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows. 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)

adj

1. Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
   A wounded soldier.
   The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
   Every single hospital was taking in wounded from the front.
   Shepard: Are you wounded, Williams? Ashley Williams: A few scrapes and burns. Nothing serious. The others weren't so lucky. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime
2. (figurative) Suffering from an emotional injury.
   My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
3. (physics) Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
   a wounded nucleon