Meaning | A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat. |
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Synonyms | wound, injury |
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Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine | The military forces of a nation |
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Narrower | blighty wound | A wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad |
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flesh wound | A wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones |
Broader | personnel casualty, loss | military personnel lost by death or capture |
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Spanish | herida de guerra, herida |
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Catalan | ferida de guerra, ferida |
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