0 past simple and past participle of wrong
1 to treat someone in an unfair or unacceptable way:
She felt deeply wronged by his accusations.
Reparation entails that goods are restored to the wronged party.
If she cannot make this claim, then she cannot claim that the physician wronged her.
She does not appear to have wronged anyone along the way.
An objection can be made against using the concept 'being wronged' to describe what is unethical about cloning in the cystic fibrosis example.
An apology also shows respect for the patient as a person by validating that he or she, as an individual, was wronged.
In tort cases the defendant is accused of having wronged the plaintiff in some manner and is alleged to owe the plaintiff compensation.
But unlike purely criminal charges, the individual wronged (the husband or father) personally prosecuted the case and paid a fee to register it.
A somewhat different tack proposes that a person can be wronged even in a case in which he or she has not been harmed.
