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flesh wounds

flesh wounds is the plural of flesh wound.

Meaning of flesh wound

Noun

flesh wound (plural flesh wounds)

  1. An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.
    • I found him dreadfully bruised, worse even than myself, perhaps owing to the excessive whiteness of his skin, and faint and weak with the loss of blood from the flesh wound in his side, but for all that cheerful as a cricket, and asking for some breakfast.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about flesh wounds

What is flesh wounds the plural of?
Flesh wounds is the plural of flesh wound.

Words near flesh wounds in the dictionary

  1. flesh one's maiden sword
  2. flesh out
  3. flesh tunnel
  4. flesh tunnels
  5. flesh wound
  6. flesh wounds
  7. flesh-bag
  8. flesh-bags
  9. flesh-brush
  10. flesh-colored
  11. flesh-coloured

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