The difference between Hurt and Wounded
When used as nouns, hurt means an emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience, whereas wounded means people who are maimed or have wounds.
When used as adjectives, hurt means wounded, physically injured, whereas wounded means suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
Hurt is also verb with the meaning: to be painful.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hurt and Wounded
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Hurt as a verb (intransitive):
To be painful.
Examples:
"Does your leg still hurt? / It is starting to feel better."
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
Examples:
"If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset."
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
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Hurt as a verb (transitive):
To undermine, impede, or damage.
Examples:
"This latest gaffe hurts the legislator’s reelection prospects still further."
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Hurt as an adjective:
Wounded, physically injured.
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Hurt as an adjective:
Pained.
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Hurt as a noun:
An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
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Hurt as a noun (archaic):
A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
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Hurt as a noun (archaic):
injury; damage; detriment; harm
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Hurt as a noun (heraldiccharge):
A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
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Hurt as a noun (engineering):
A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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Hurt as a noun:
A husk.
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Wounded as a verb:
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Wounded as an adjective:
Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.
Examples:
"A wounded soldier."
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Wounded as an adjective (figuratively):
Suffering from an emotional injury.
Examples:
"My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection."
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Wounded as an adjective (physics):
Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.
Examples:
"a wounded nucleon"
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Wounded as a noun:
People who are maimed or have wounds.
Examples:
"The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery."