smarting vs wounded

smarting

adj
  • Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment. 

  • Painful, sore. 

noun
  • A sensation that smarts or stings. 

wounded

adj
  • Suffering from an emotional injury. 

  • Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife. 

  • Of a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision. 

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