the wounded

noun

: people who have been wounded

They carried the wounded off the battlefield.

Examples of the wounded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Military personnel at the Pentagon pulled the wounded from the rubble, and ordinary citizens became first responders in the streets of lower Manhattan. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Four of the wounded were in a 22-story residential building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, where a drone damaged the 11th floor and started a fire on the 12th floor, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

According to Miami-Dade County fire officials, some victims were trapped inside the vehicles and at least three of the wounded are in critical condition. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

When war reaches their shores, they are ordered to help nurse the wounded in a military hospital hidden away in a cave. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for the wounded

• abounded
• astounded
• compounded
• confounded
• expounded
• foregrounded
• impounded
• propounded
• rebounded
• resounded
• subrounded
• surrounded