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BLIGHTY WOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blighty wound mean? 

BLIGHTY WOUND (noun)
  The noun BLIGHTY WOUND has 1 sense:

1. a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroadplay

  Familiarity information: BLIGHTY WOUND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLIGHTY WOUND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("blighty wound" is a kind of...):

combat injury; injury; wound (a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat)


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