Wounded vs Bruised - What's the difference?
wounded | bruised |
(wound)
* 1913: )
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.
* 1883:
(figuratively) Suffering from an emotional injury.
(qualifier) People who are maimed or have wounds.
(bruise)
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
* Thackeray
(medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
As verbs the difference between wounded and bruised
is that wounded is past tense of wound while bruised is past tense of bruise.As an adjective wounded
is suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle.As a noun wounded
is usually, with "the" People who are maimed or have wounds.wounded
English
Verb
(head)- Nila, Agni's son, brandishing an uptorn tree, rushed on Prahasta; but he wounded the monkey with showers of arows.
Adjective
(head)- ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed.
- My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
Noun
(en-plural noun)- The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
Derived terms
* walking woundedbruised
English
Verb
(head)bruise
English
(wikipedia bruise)Alternative forms
* bruize (obsolete)Verb
(bruis)- Bananas bruise easily.
- I bruise easily.
- Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.