flesh wound

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

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Questions about flesh wound

What does flesh wound mean?

flesh wound means "a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones".

Is flesh wound a common word?

flesh wound 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.