Down and Wounded

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Down adjective - Brought or having come to an end.

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Wounded and down are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wounded" instead an adjective "Down".

Nearby Word: downed

Wounded adjective - Suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle.

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Down and wounded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Down" instead an adjective "Wounded".

Nearby Words: wound, wounding

In the 2003 anime, Hawkeye doesn't take her hair down until the very last episode, when she visits wounded comrade Roy Mustang.

Source: Letting Her Hair Down
In this Girl Genius, Violetta expresses her fury by kicking the wounded Tarvek — who is not actually down, but can't really fight back because they are on the same side.

Source: Kick Them While They Are Down
Freeman explains that he had to shoot the wounded NPC because he would have just slowed them down, or worse been forced to tell about the team's mission if captured.

Source: I Will Only Slow You Down

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