different between wounded vs heartbroken

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wu?nd?d/
• Hyphenation: wound?ed

Verb

wounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of wound
   • 1913: Valmiki, The Ramayana, (translated by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Coomaraswamy)

     Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.

Adjective

wounded

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.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     […] he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

2. (figuratively) 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

Synonyms

• (suffering from a wound): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (suffering from an emotional injury): damaged, hurt, traumatised
• (having undergone an inelastic collision):

Derived terms

• walking wounded

Translations

English

Etymology

From heart +? broken.

Adjective

heartbroken (comparative more heartbroken, superlative most heartbroken)

1. Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.

   Synonyms: brokenhearted, inconsolable, forlorn, despairing, dejected, disconsolate, distraught, devastated, wretched, grief-stricken, discouraged

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• broken heart