different between wounded vs imbrued

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 imbrue +? -ed.

Verb

imbrued

1. simple past tense and past participle of imbrue

Adjective

imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

1. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].

   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.

     He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.

2. (heraldry) Stained with blood.

Synonyms

• (stained with blood): ablood, bloodstained, sanguinolent; see also Thesaurus:bloodied
• (wounded): hurt, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (heraldry):