COMBAT INJURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does combat injury mean? 

• COMBAT INJURY (noun)
  The noun COMBAT INJURY has 1 sense:

1. a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

  Familiarity information: COMBAT INJURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMBAT INJURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

combat injury; injury; wound

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)