trench foot

1. 1.

   resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet

   Synonymsimmersion foot

   Broaderfrostbite

Questions about trench foot

What does trench foot mean?

trench foot means "resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet".

What is another word for trench foot?

Close synonyms include immersion foot. 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 trench foot a common word?

trench foot 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.