combat injury

1. 1.

   a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat

   Synonymswoundinjury

   Broaderpersonnel casualty

   Narrowerblighty woundflesh wound

   military

Questions about combat injury

What does combat injury mean?

combat injury means "a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat".

What is another word for combat injury?

Close synonyms include wound, injury. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is combat injury a common word?

combat injury is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.