wounded

B2 · Upper Intermediate

adj. feeling upset or offended because someone was unkind to you.

adj. suffering from emotional or psychological distress, often due to a perceived insult or betrayal.

“He had a wounded look on his face after she criticised his work.”

“She spoke in a wounded tone, clearly affected by the committee's sudden dismissal of her long-term project.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Uncountable noun

n. people who have been hurt, especially in a war.

n. a collective plural noun referring to people who have sustained injuries, particularly in a military or disaster context.

“The wounded were moved away from the front lines as quickly as possible.”

“International aid organisations prioritised the evacuation of the wounded, as the local clinics were no longer able to provide surgical care.”

C2 · Proficiency Science Technical

adj. describes a tiny particle that has hit something and lost some of its energy.

adj. referring to a particle that has undergone an inelastic collision, resulting in a change of state or energy loss.

“The experiment tracked how the wounded particles moved after the collision.”

“In high-energy physics, the wounded nucleon model is used to describe the participants in a heavy-ion collision.”