Wounded over the French race (6)
I believe the answer is:
hurtle
'race' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'wounded over the french' is the wordplay.
'wounded' becomes 'hurt' ('hurt' can be a synonym of 'wounded').
'over' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le'.
'hurt'+'le'='HURTLE'
(Other definitions for hurtle that I've seen before include "Dash, move at high speed" , "Move rapidly or fall headlong" , "Run headlong" , "Proceed quickly and noisily" , "Career (along)" .)