Definition of Combat injury

1. Noun. A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat.

Exact synonyms: Injury, Wound
Specialized synonyms: Blighty Wound, Flesh Wound
Generic synonyms: Loss, Personnel Casualty
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Derivative terms: Wound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combat Injury

combable
combat
combat-ready
combat area
combat armor suit
combat armor suits
combat armour suit
combat armour suits
combat boot
combat casualty
combat ceiling
combat disorders
combat exhaustion
combat fatigue
combat fatigues
combat injury (current term)
combat intelligence
combat mission
combat neurosis
combat pay
combat pilot
combat ship
combat sport
combat zone
combatable
combatant
combatants
combated
combater
combaters

Literary usage of Combat injury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1816)
"... in mid air with the tremendous weapons of fire and lightning ; and, although finally successful, sustains in the combat injury under which she sinks, ..."

2. West Virginia Medical Journal by West Virginia State Medical Association (1907)
"To combat injury already done (medical). In accomplishing these aims there has been no unity of action among physicians. Vaginal and intra-utérine douching, ..."

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