the wounded

noun

: people who have been wounded
They carried the wounded off the battlefield.

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Monitoring the wounded — Justin Faulk, Radek Faksa, Nick Leddy Faulk was back in the Blues’ lineup Tuesday after missing the past two games with an upper-body injury. Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 How to help: Officials are asking for blood donations to help the wounded, and families are seeking assistance with burial expenses. Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025 Exposed to enemy fire, Orig administered first aid and helped evacuate the wounded to safety. Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025 Along these lines, an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal from a few months ago, and that was written by a doctor who had treated Ukrainians, indicated that the wounded in Ukraine are suffering in hideously awful new ways that the weapons of old weren’t capable of. John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the wounded 

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“The wounded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20wounded. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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