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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

walking wounded

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables
walk-ing -wound-ed
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Those casualties whose wounds do not require them to be moved on a stretcher but that can walk to medical treatment.

Inflected Forms

the walking wounded (canonical)

Questions

What does walking wounded mean?
Those casualties whose wounds do not require them to be moved on a stretcher but that can walk to medical treatment.

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