Hurting and Wounded

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Hurting adjective - Causing or feeling bodily pain.

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

Nearby Words: hurt, hurtful

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

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Hurting and wounded are semantically related. You can use "Hurting" instead an adjective "Wounded".

Nearby Words: wound, wounding

Wounded Gazelle Gambit: This was Darren's plan with Becky to remove Kitty as alpha, having her call and claim he was hurting her so Kitty would rush to the rescue and into his trap.

Source: Literature / Kitty Norville
Cycle of Hurting: The more you're wounded, the more faded are the game's colours and graphics, making the enemies harder to spot.

Source: Video Game / Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Cycle of Hurting: If a character's health goes to Badly Wounded or below, they are rendered unable to fight.

Source: Video Game / Liberal Crime Squad

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