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COMBAT INJURY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Synonyms:

combat injury; injury; wound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("combat injury" is a kind of...):

loss; personnel casualty (military personnel lost by death or capture)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "combat injury"):

blighty wound (a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad)

flesh wound (a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones)

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