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

All victims were in their 20s and 30s; the three deaths were men, and the wounded were split between two men and two women. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2026

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

Rhymes for the wounded

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